Background: We investigated the effects of marital status and education on the risk of acute
myocardial infarction (AMI) in a large-scale case-control study in China. Methods: This study …

Background Many researches report that low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with
a higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). This study aimed to determine whether levels …

Objective: To determine the risk factors for premature myocardial infarction among young
South Asians. Design and setting: Case–control study in a hospital admitting unselected …

OBJECTIVE To study the association between own education, adult and parental
circumstances and the risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country. DESIGN …

Methods Participants. INTERHEART was a multinational case-control study that enrolled
15,152 cases presenting with a first MI and 14,820 controls matched for age and sex …

Background Being married has been associated with a lower mortality from ischemic heart
disease (IHD) in men, but there is less evidence of an association for women, and it is …

Background Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is prevalent and has serious consequences
including re-infarction and death. Although the risk factors for AMI have been extensively …

Most, but not all, studies in Western countries have indicated that women have a higher
mortality than men after an acute myocardial infarction, but this has not been well …

Background A negative socioeconomic gradient is established for coronary heart disease
(CHD) mortality and survival, while socioeconomic patterning of disease incidence is less …

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess whether the increased incidence of myocardial infarction
and death associated with smoking, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and diabetes varies …