Deprivation in infancy or in adult life: which is more important for mortality risk?

The Lancet

Volumn 337, Issue 8740, 1991, Pages 530-534

  Ben Shlomo, Y ^a   Smith, G Davey ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 0025963808     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)91307-G     Document Type: Article

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