Relation between number of siblings and adult mortality and stroke risk: 25 Year follow up of men in the collaborative study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 385-391

  Hart, C L ^a   Davey Smith, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; SIBLING; STROKE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; STOMACH CANCER; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037406408     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.5.385     Document Type: Article

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