Socioeconomic position in early life, birth weight, childhood cognitive function, and adult mortality. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 681-686

  Osler, M ^a   Andersen, A M N ^a   Due, P ^a   Lund, R ^a   Damsgaard, M T ^a   Holstein, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; FATHER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; DENMARK; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIAL CLASS; VIOLENCE;

DENMARK;

EID: 0042319112     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.9.681     Document Type: Article

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