Women show a closer association between educational level and hypertension or diabetes mellitus than males: a secondary analysis from the Austrian HIS
Open Access
- 30 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 12 (1), 392
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-392
Abstract
Lifestyle diseases and cardiovascular complications are dramatically increasing, but little is known about the impact of educational level and health behaviour in men and women in different populations. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between educational level (EL) and self-reported chronic diseases and health behaviour in both sexes.Keywords
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