Risky business

26 March 2009

There are marked differences in mortality from coronary heart disease between people from high and low socioeconomic groups. Most of these differences could be eliminated if current best-practice interventions to reduce coronary risk factors (such as smoking and high blood pressure) are applied to both groups, according to estimates made by a team of researchers working in the UK and France, including Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow Dr David Batty.

Reference

Kivimäki M et al. Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. Lancet 2008;372:1648-54.