Welcome to Preventing Chronic Disease

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  • Lynne S. Wilcox
چکیده

Those were the last deaths from infectious disease in my family. My grandmother and her children ran the farm throughout the Great Depression, the sons went off to World War II and returned, the daughters received teaching scholarships and sent money home for the next sibling's education, several offspring married and started new families. The eventual deaths of my grandmother and all her children were due to chronic diseases. One daughter, age 94, survives today.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Preventing Chronic Disease

دوره 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004