Should Years of Schooling Be Used to Guide Treatment of Coronary Risk Factors?
Open Access
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (5), 469-473
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.88
Abstract
PURPOSE We wanted to compare the risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) for patients of low socioeconomic status, measured by educational level, with established risk factors.Keywords
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