TY - JOUR AU - Nagel, Gabriele AU - Peter, Richard AU - Braig, Stefanie AU - Hermann, Silke AU - Rohrmann, Sabine AU - Linseisen, Jakob PY - 2008 DA - 2008/11/11 TI - The impact of education on risk factors and the occurrence of multimorbidity in the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort JO - BMC Public Health SP - 384 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - In aging populations, the prevalence of multimorbidity is high, and the role of socioeconomic status and its correlates is not well described. Thus, we investigated the association between educational attainment and multimorbidity in a prospective cohort study, taking also into account intermediate factors that could explain such associations. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-384 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-8-384 ID - Nagel2008 ER -