Can social class differentials in hypertension be explained by the general susceptibility hypothesis?

Peter Nilsson, Per-Olof Östergren, Lars Lindholm and Bengt Scherstén

Social Science & Medicine, 1994, vol. 38, issue 9, 1235-1242

Abstract: In a population-based, cross-sectional study of 310 treated hypertensives (HT) and 288 matched normotensive controls (NT), social and biological variables were investigated. HT comprised a higher proportion of individuals in lower socioeconomic strata (P

Keywords: hypertension; social; class; obesity; glucose; insulin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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