Cohort Profile: The Chennai prospective study of mortality among 500 000 adults in Tamil Nadu, South India
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Cohort Profile: the Chennai prospective study of mortality among 500,000 adults in Tamil Nadu, South India.
A prospective study of half a million adults living in the city of Chennai (formerly Madras) arose out of discussions at the 1994 International Cancer Congress in Delhi about how to assess the effects of tobacco on health in different parts of India. Chennai is the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and it is India’s fourth most populous city. Two large-scale epidemiological studi...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym091