Are poor living conditions in childhood and adolescence an important risk factor for arteriosclerotic heart disease?
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 31 (2) , 91-95
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.31.2.91
Abstract
Norwegian counties show considerable variations in their rates of mortality from arteriosclerotic heart disease. These variations cannot be explained by present-day differences in standard of living. Such differences existed in the past as was shown by large variations in infant mortality. A significant positive correlation was found between the county age-adjusted mortality from arteriosclerotic heart disease in people aged 40-69 yr and county infant mortality relating to the early years in the same cohorts. Great poverty in childhood and adolescence followed by prosperity is apparently a risk factor for arteriosclerotic heart disease.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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