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Genetics and health inequalities: hypotheses and controversies.

Abstract

This article reviews the current understanding of the explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in health in industrialised countries and then tries to determine where genetic factors could fit into explanatory schemes. It focuses on the explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in frequency of the main health problems of middle and old age.

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Year: 2005 PMID： 15767378 PMCID： PMC1733045 DOI： 10.1136/jech.2004.026807

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Epidemiol Community Health ISSN： 0143-005X Impact factor: 3.710

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Genetics and health inequalities: hypotheses and controversies.

1. Intelligence: genetics, genes, and genomics.

2. Advanced glossary on genetic epidemiology.

Review 3. Rethinking the health selection explanation for health inequalities.

4. Socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancy in Finland and Norway in the late 1980s.

5. Explaining educational differences in mortality: the role of behavioral and material factors.

6. Adult body height, self perceived health and mortality in the Swedish population.

7. Contribution of adolescent and early adult personality to the inverse association between education and cardiovascular risk behaviours: prospective population-based cohort study.

8. Occupational level of the father and alcohol consumption during adolescence; patterns and predictors.

9. Physical activity at work and at leisure in relation to coronary risk factors and social class. A 4-year mortality follow-up. The Oslo study.

10. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study.

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2. First investigation of two obesity-related loci (TMEM18, FTO) concerning their association with educational level as well as income: the MONICA/KORA study.

3. The effect of change in educational composition on population ageing.

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