Socioeconomic Differences in Cardiometabolic Factors: Social Causation or Health-related Selection? Evidence From the Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1991–2004

Socioeconomic Differences in Cardiometabolic Factors: Social Causation or Health-related Selection? Evidence From the Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1991–2004

In this study, the health-related selection hypothesis (that health predicts social mobility) and the social causation hypothesis (that socioeconomic status influences health) were tested in relation to cardiometabolic factors. The authors screened 8,312 United Kingdom men and women 3 times over 10...

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Main Authors: Elovainio, Marko, Ferrie, Jane E., Singh-Manoux, Archana, Shipley, Martin, Batty, G. David, Head, Jenny, Hamer, Mark, Jokela, Markus, Virtanen, Marianna, Brunner, Eric, Marmot, Michael G., Kivimäki, Mika
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176829/

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