Potential explanations for the educational gradient in coronary heart disease: a population-based case-control study of Swedish women.

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Published in Am J Public Health on March 01, 1999

Authors

S P Wamala1, M A Mittleman, K Schenck-Gustafsson, K Orth-Gomér

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1: Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. sarah.wamala@phs.ki.se

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