K Orth-Gomér

Biographic Data

ID6063597
NAMEK Orth-Gomér
GIVEN NAMESK
FAMILY NAMEOrth-Gomér
SIGNATUREORTH-GOMÉR K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX2

  • Potential explanations for the educational gradient in coronary heart disease

    Sarah Wamala, S P Wamala et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1999Cited by: 9References: 56

    OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between educational attainment and coronary heart disease (CHD) and the factors that may explain this association. METHODS: This population-based case-control study included 292 women with CHD who were 65 years or younger and 292 age-matched controls. RESULTS: Compared with the adjusted odds ratio for CHD associated with college education, the age-adjusted odds ratio associated with mandatory educat…

  • Lipid profile and socioeconomic status in healthy middle aged women in Sweden

    Sarah Wamala, S P Wamala et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1997Cited by: 4References: 21

    STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and full lipid profile in middle aged healthy women. PARTICIPANTS: These comprised 300 healthy Swedish women between 30 and 65 years who constitute the control group of the Stockholm female coronary risk study, a population based, case-control study of women with coronary heart disease (CHD). The age matched control group, drawn from the census register of greater Sto…

  • Lack of social support and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged Swedish men

    Open AccessK Orth-Gomér, Annemie Ploeger et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1993

    Lack of social support has been found to predict all causes of mortality in population studies. It has often been assumed that the lack of social ties is associated with the general social conditions related to mortality and has little to do with specific disease etiology. So far, the association between lack of support and cardiovascular disease incidence has not been demonstrated. We have measured both emotional support from very close persons …

  • Cardiovascular effects of social support in the work place

    Anna‐lena Undén, A L Undén et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1991

    Psychosocial work characteristics, such as work demand, work control, and social support at work, have been shown to be related to the development of coronary heart disease in epidemiological studies. However, the mechanisms which mediate the social and psychological effects on the cardiovascular system are not known. We have studied the direct cardiovascular effects of psychosocial work environment characteristics in 148 working men and women, r…

  • Type A behavior, social support, and coronary risk

    Kristina Orth‐gomér, K Orth-Gomér et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1990

    The 10-year prognostic significance of psychosocial as well as medical risk factors was examined in 150 middle-aged Swedish men. Type A behavior was assessed by means of the Structured Interview; work demand, social support, and other psychosocial factors were registered through standardized questionnaires. The clinical investigation included a standard physical examination, a frontal and sagittal chest x-ray, fasting serum lipids, glucose, and u…

  • Slow-reacting immunoglobulin in relation to social support and changes in job strain

    Töres Theorell, Kristina Orth‐gomér et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1990

    Fifty working subjects in the ages 25 to 60 were asked to rate the amount of job strain (demands divided by decision latitude) that they experienced on four occasions at intervals of three to four months. Blood samples were taken for the analysis of immunoglobulin G before work started on these work days. After the end of the studied year each subject was asked to rate the total amount of social support that he/she had experienced. Both availabil…