Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study

JE Ferrie; MJ Shipley; E Breeze; G Davey Smith

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2006.02.010

Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study

JE Ferrie, MJ Shipley, E Breeze, G Davey Smith

Bristol Medical School (PHS)

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Objectives. To describe the socioeconomic distribution of risk factors for cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in employed women and men in the late 1960s. Study design and methods. Cross-sectional data were collected from 3345 General Post Office (GPO) employees in London, via a questionnaire and clinical examination, between October 1966 and April 1967. Results. Our occupational grade classification conformed to expected patterns of greater car ownership and gardening among higher-grade women and men, and greater height in higher-grade men (highest–lowest grade 175.0–170.7 cm, P

Translated title of the contribution	Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	685 - 695
Number of pages	11
Journal	Public Health
Volume	120 (8)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2006.02.010
Publication status	Published - Aug 2006

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Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study

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