Design, objectives, and lessons from a pilot 25 year follow up re-survey of survivors in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 364-369

  Clarke, Robert ^a   Breeze, Elizabeth ^b   Sherliker, Paul ^a   Shipley, Martin ^c   Youngman, Linda ^a   Fletcher, Astrid ^b   Fuhrer, Rebecca ^c   Leon, Dave ^b   Parish, Sarah ^a   Collins, Rory ^a   Marmot, Michael ^c  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031726411     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.6.364     Document Type: Article

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