SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY Does personality explain social inequalities in mortality? The French GAZEL cohort study
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Methods Of the GAZEL cohort, 14 445 participants aged 39–54 years in 1993 and followed-up over 12.7 years, completed the Bortner-TypeA-scale, the Buss-Durkee-Hostility-Inventory and the GrossarthMaticek and Eysenck-Personality-Stress-Inventory. Indicators of SEP, such as father’s social class, education, occupational grade and income, were assessed at baseline. Relative indices of inequality in Cox regression models were used to estimate associations.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008