The impact of the combination of income and education on the incidence of coronary heart disease in the prospective Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort study

We investigated the association between income-education groups and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in a national prospective cohort study. The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study recruited 30,239 black and white community-dwelling adults between 2003 and 2007 and col...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC public health 2015-12, Vol.15 (10913), p.1312-1312, Article 1312
Hauptverfasser:	Lewis, Marquita W, Khodneva, Yulia, Redmond, Nicole, Durant, Raegan W, Judd, Suzanne E, Wilkinson, Larrell L, Howard, Virginia J, Safford, Monika M
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Continental Ancestry Group Age Distribution Aged Analysis Cardiovascular disease Coronary Artery Disease - epidemiology Coronary Artery Disease - ethnology Demographic aspects European Continental Ancestry Group Female Health risk assessment Heart attack Heart attacks Humans Incidence Income Male Middle Aged Mortality Poverty Proportional Hazards Models Prospective Studies Risk Risk factors Sex Distribution Social economics Socioeconomic Factors
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Zusammenfassung:	We investigated the association between income-education groups and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in a national prospective cohort study. The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study recruited 30,239 black and white community-dwelling adults between 2003 and 2007 and collected participant-reported and in-home physiologic variables at baseline, with expert adjudicated CHD endpoints during follow-up. Mutually exclusive income-education groups were: low income (annual household income
ISSN:	1471-2458 1471-2458
DOI:	10.1186/s12889-015-2630-4