Twenty-year trends in cardiovascular risk factors in India and influence of educational status
- 26 September 2011
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
- Vol. 19 (6), 1258-1271
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1741826711424567
Abstract
Background: Urban middle-socioeconomic status (SES) subjects have high burden of cardiovascular risk factors in low-income countries. To determine secular trends in risk factors among this population and to correlate risks with educational status we performed epidemiological studies in India.Keywords
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