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Economic conditions, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: analysis of the Icelandic economic collapse

Birgisdóttir, Kristín Helga; Jonsson, Stefan Hrafn; Asgeirsdottir, Tinna Laufey (Springer Nature, 2017-05-23)

Previous research has found a positive short-term relationship between the 2008 collapse and hypertension in Icelandic males. With Iceland's economy experiencing a phase of economic recovery, an opportunity to pursue a longer-term analysis of the ...
Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle

Asgeirsdottir, Tinna Laufey; Jóhannsdóttir, Hildur Margrét (Springer Nature, 2017-03-09)

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data collected in ...

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