Cohort profile: The Boyd Orr cohort - An historical cohort study based on the 65 year follow-up of the Carnegie Survey of Diet and Health (1937-39)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 742-749

  Martin, Richard M ^a   Gunnell, David ^a   Pemberton, John ^b   Frankel, Stephen ^a   Smith, George Davey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Iona   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY LIFE; FETUS GROWTH; FOLLOW UP; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; RURAL AREA; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 26444614768     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi124     Document Type: Article

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