The impact of education on risk factors and the occurrence of multimorbidity in the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort
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- 11 November 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1) , 384
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-384
Abstract
In aging populations, the prevalence of multimorbidity is high, and the role of socioeconomic status and its correlates is not well described. Thus, we investigated the association between educational attainment and multimorbidity in a prospective cohort study, taking also into account intermediate factors that could explain such associations.Keywords
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