Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study
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Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study.
The Uppsala birth cohort study is a lifelong follow up study of people born in 1915-29. 4 We used official registers to follow their marital status and mortality from 1970 through to 1995. Complete data were available for 5577 men and 5227 women. We collected school results at age 10 and body height (for men) at conscription (age 18) for a random sample of 405 boys and 411 girls (8%). To indica...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7334.398