Childhood influences on adult health: A review of recent work from the British 1946 national birth cohort study, the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 2-20

  Wadsworth, M E J ^a,b   Kuh, D J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PRENATAL GROWTH; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0031403388     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1997.d01-7.x     Document Type: Article

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