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Coronary heart disease mortality among young adults in Scotland in relation to social inequalities — time trend study
Author(s)	Martin O'Flaherty, Jennifer Bishop, Adam Redpath
Journal title	British Medical Journal, vol 339, no 7714, 25 July 2009
Pages	p 219
Source	www.bmj.com
Keywords	Heart disease ; Young adults [20-25] ; Death rate [statistics] ; Poverty ; Economic status [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Scotland.
Annotation	Does the overall decline in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates in Scotland between 1986 and 2006 differ by age and socioeconomic status? Overall (age-adjusted) coronary heart disease mortality rates have continued to decline in Scotland. However, this conceals a flattening in younger age groups, particularly the most deprived people. This is a summary of a paper that was published on bmj.com as BMJ 2009: 339:b2613, which used population data from Scotland for 1986-2006, and used the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) for 1986-2006 to categorise area level socioeconomic status. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090810213 A
Classmark	CQH: SD6: S5: W6: F:W: 3J: 9A *
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