Why the study?
Does low socioeconomic status increase the risk of incident coronary heart disease, and how much of this gradient is explained by conventional risk factors?
Population
5,363 men aged 40 to 62 years at baseline from the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
Comparison
Low socioeconomic status vs High socioeconomic status
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
11 years
Authors
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SES-associated CHD risk persists beyond conventional factors; leaves open unmeasured determinants and need for standardized inequality metrics.
Does low socioeconomic status increase the risk of incident coronary heart disease, and how much of this gradient is explained by conventional risk factors?
Conventional risk factors explain a similar proportion of the social gradient in CHD whether using relative or absolute approaches, highlighting the importance of standardizing methodology in health inequality research.
Singh‐Manoux et al. (2008) studied this question.
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