Roles of allostatic load, lifestyle and clinical risk factors in mediating the association between education and coronary heart disease risk in Europe.

Blánaid M HicksGiovanni VeronesiMarco Mario FerrarioHannah ForrestMargaret WhiteheadFinn DiderichsenHugh Tunstall-PedoeKari KuulasmaaSusana SansVeikko SalomaaBarbara ThorandAnnette PetersStefan SoderbergGiancarlo CesanaMartin BobakLicia IacovielloLuigi PalmieriTanja ZellerStefan BlankenbergFrank Keenull null

Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (2021)

Overall, the educational inequalities in CHD incidence were partially mediated through differential exposure to AL. By contrast, the mediation of the educational gradient in CHD by investigated lifestyle risk factors was limited. As differential susceptibility in men was found to have a predominant role in the accumulation of AL in low educational classes, the investigation of AL-related risk factors is warranted.

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