Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ichiro Kawachi, MD, and colleagues examined the data collected from nearly 190,000 women nurses followed over a 24-year period, expanding the outcomes and measures to include more than just heart attacks and death by CHD. Their findings are published in JAMA.
Could targeting reading comprehension help to mediate inverse relationship between education and coronary heart disease?
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty members Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, and Laura Kubzansky, PhD, and former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Arijit Nandi, PhD, have published a study in Health Education & Behavior that is aimed at improving the understanding of the inverse relationship between education and coronary heart disease by looking more closely at factors such as literacy, depressive symptoms, and perceived constraint.