Location of residence or social class, which is the stronger determinant associated with cardiovascular risk factors among Pakistani population? A cross sectional study

Muhammad Tareen

qualifications: MPH

contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts

position: Chief medical officer

United Kingdom

Kashif Shafique

qualifications: MPH, MBBS

contribution: original concept, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Postgraduate student

Saira Mirza

qualifications: MPhil, MBBS

contribution: original concept, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Research associate

A medical graduate and professional researcher working with Dow University of Health Sciences. Involved in undergraduate teaching and keen interest in public health issues. Areas of special interest are infection epidemiology, tropical infectious diseases, differences in chronic disease distribution in urban and rural population, long term influences of life style on womens' health, distribution of cardiovascular risk factors in different populations and factors influencing them and cancer epidemiology.

Dr Zain Arain

contribution: collected data, literature review

position: Medical student

Ishtiaque Ahmad

qualifications: MD

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Family physician

Priya Vart

qualifications: MPH, BDS

contribution: contributed to drafts, literature review, statistical analysis

position: Research assistant

United Kingdom

Priya Vart BDS, MPH University of Glasgow (UK) Correspondence: vart.priya@yahoo.co.uk