Childhood IQ, social class, deprivation, and their relationships with mortality and morbidity risk in later life: Prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the midspan studies

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 877-883

  Hart, Carole L ^a   Taylor, Michelle D ^b   Smith, George Davey ^c   Whalley, Lawrence J ^d   Starr, John M ^e   Hole, David J ^a   Wilson, Valerie ^a   Deary, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e Royal Victoria Hospital Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort; Deprivation; Mental ability; Mortality; Scotland; Social class

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0141634200     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000088584.82822.86     Document Type: Article

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