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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:806-807
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Cardiovascular Disease

Commentary: Is an educated wife hazardous to her husband’s heart?: Never, always, or sometimes?

Karen A Matthews

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. E-mail: matthewska@msx.upmc.edu

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Contemporary women constitute the majority of college undergraduates and are achieving a higher level of educational attainment than any other previous generation in the US.1 A similar experience is observed in other developed countries.2 Thus, a natural experiment of enormous proportions is occurring, and it is important to ask what is the public health impact of women’s increasing educational attainment.

In the present issue, Egeland and colleagues3 take a fresh look at the public health impact of women’s education on their husbands. In a cohort of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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