Educational attainment and cardiovascular disease in the United States: A quasi-experimental instrumental variables analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>There is ongoing debate about whether education or socioeconomic status (SES) should be inputs into cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction algorithms and clinical risk adjustment models. It is also unclear whether intervening on education will affect CVD, in part beca...

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Main Authors: Rita Hamad, Thu T Nguyen, Jay Bhattacharya, M Maria Glymour, David H Rehkopf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-06-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002834