An index of unhealthy lifestyle is associated with coronary heart disease mortality rates for small areas in England after adjustment for deprivation

Bibliographic Data

ID12544375
AuthorsPatricia Scarborough (0000-0002-2378-2944, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Steven Allender (0000-0002-4842-3294, University of Oxford), Mike Rayner (0000-0003-0479-6483, University of Oxford), M J Goldacre (0000-0002-3895-1739, University of Oxford), M Goldacre
Year2010
Volume17
Issue2
Pages691-695
Publication date2010-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth & Place (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-8292 • E-ISSN: 1873-2054
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.12.007
PMID21216177
PMCIDPMC3065015
OpenAlexW2073635090
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

Indices of socio-economic deprivation are often used as a proxy for differences in the health behaviours of populations within small areas, but these indices are a measure of the economic environment rather than the health environment. Sets of synthetic estimates of the ward-level prevalence of low fruit and vegetable consumption, obesity, raised blood pressure, raised cholesterol and smoking were combined to develop an index of unhealthy lifestyle. Multi-level regression models showed that this index described about 50% of the large-scale geographic variation in CHD mortality rates in England, and substantially adds to the ability of an index of deprivation to explain geographic variations in CHD mortality rates

Blood pressure · Body mass index · Cardiology · Coronary heart disease · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Index (typography · Mortality rate · Obesity · Proxy (statistics · Social deprivation · Statistics · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Gerontology · Internal Medicine

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