Kristina Sundquist
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: A Follow-up Study of 25,319 Women and Men in Sweden
Karolinska Institutet
study authors examined whether neighborhood socioeconomic environment predicted incident coronary heart disease adjustment individuallevel characteristics random sample swedish population 25319 women men aged 3574 years interviewed 1986 1993 followed december 1997 incident coronary heart disease 1189 events neighborhood socioeconomic environment defined smallarea market statistics 6145 neighborhoods measured two indicators neighborhood education proportion people less 10 years education neighborhood neighborhood income proportion people incomes lowest national income quartile separate multilevel cox proportional hazards models showed low neighborhood education low neighborhood income predicted incident coronary heart disease adjustment age sex individuallevel education income hazard ratios 125 123 respectively authors conclude neighborhood socioeconomic environment predicts incident coronary heart disease significant effect coronary heart disease risk beyond individual effect