Association of Educational, Occupational and Socioeconomic Status with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Asian Indians: A Cross-Sectional Study

To determine correlation of multiple parameters of socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors in India. The study was performed at eleven cities using cluster sampling. Subjects (n = 6198, men 3426, women 2772) were evaluated for socioeconomic, demographic, biophysical and biochemical fac...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 7; no. 8; p. e44098
Main Authors:	Gupta, Rajeev, Deedwania, Prakash C., Sharma, Krishnakumar, Gupta, Arvind, Guptha, Soneil, Achari, Vijay, Asirvatham, Arthur J., Bhansali, Anil, Gupta, Balkishan, Gupta, Sunil, Jali, Mallikarjuna V., Mahanta, Tulika G., Maheshwari, Anuj, Saboo, Banshi, Singh, Jitendra, Gupta, Rajiv
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 29.08.2012 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Academic achievement Adult Aged Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data Asians Blood pressure Body fat Body weight Cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology Cholesterol Chronic illnesses Clustering Cohort Studies Confidence intervals Correlation analysis Cross-Sectional Studies Demographics Demography Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Diet Education Educational aspects Educational attainment Educational Status Epidemiology Exercise Female Gender differences Health risk assessment Health risks Healthy food High density lipoprotein High fat diet Hip Humans Hypercholesterolemia Hypertension Hypertriglyceridemia India - epidemiology Life Style Male Medicine Metabolic disorders Metabolic syndrome Middle Aged Mortality Obesity Occupations - statistics & numerical data Odds Ratio Overweight Physical activity Physical fitness Prevalence Risk analysis Risk Factors Sampling Smoking Social Class Social classes Socioeconomic factors Socioeconomic status Socioeconomics Statistical analysis Tobacco Triglycerides Vegetables Waist to hip ratio India United States > US California
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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