AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Nov 29, 2005
Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Disease Among Men: The Korean National Health Service Prospective Cohort Study
Yun-Mi Song, MD, MPH, PhD,
Robert L. Ferrer, MD, MPH,
Sung-il Cho, MD, ScD,
Joohon Sung, MD, MPH, PhD,
Shah Ebrahim, DM, FRCP and
George Davey Smith, DSc, FFPHM
Yun-Mi Song is with the Department of Family Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Robert L. Ferrer is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Sung-il Cho is with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul. Joohon Sung is with the Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, and the Department of Preventive Medicine, Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Kangwon-Do, South Korea. Shah Ebrahim and George Davey Smith are with the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.



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FIGURE 1 Adjusted hazard ratio for nonfatal events of (a) myocardial infarction, (b) ischemic stroke, and (c) hemorrhagic stroke by level of socioeconomic status and stratified by presence and absence of major cardiovascular risk factors.
Note. RF = risk factors.
aI = lowest; IV = highest.
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