Educational inequality in cardiovascular diseases: a sibling approach.

CONCLUSIONS: Confounding from factors shared by siblings explained the associations between education and the cardiovascular disease outcomes but to varying degrees. This should be taken into account when planning interventions aimed at reducing educational inequalities in the development of cardiovascular disease, ischaemic heart disease and stroke. PMID: 28992724 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28992724?dopt=Abstract

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - October 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Søndergaard G, Dalton SO, Mortensen LH, Osler M Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research