Urban stress and health in developing countries: development and validation of a neighborhood stress index for India. From: Behavioral Medicine | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Ewart, Craig K.; Friedberg, Jennifer P.; Kapur, Suman; Suchday, Sonia | COPYRIGHT 2006 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Globalization has led to rapid industrialization and urbanization in developing countries, such as India, and an increase in lifestyle-related disorders, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), essential hypertension (EH), stroke, and diabetes mellitus (DM), in these countries. (1,2) There has also been an increase in the risk factors that enhance vulnerability to developing these disorders, including tobacco use, a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet, (3) sedentary lifestyle, (4,5) C...

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