Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage?
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Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage?
STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine in detail the cause specific associations between height and mortality. DESIGN A prospective cohort study with an 18 year mortality follow up. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The Whitehall study of 18,403 men in the civil service in London examined between 1967 and 1969 aged 40-64 and followed up for mortality until the end of January 1987. MAIN RESULTS There was consi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.49.1.5