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Review

The role of psychobiological pathways in socio-economic inequalities in cardiovascular disease risk

A. Steptoef1 and M. Marmot

International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, U.K.

revised January 7, 2001; accepted January 10, 2001

Key Words: Coronary disease, socio-economic status, psychobiology, stress, health inequalities

f1 Correspondence: Andrew Steptoe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.

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