Changing patterns in causes of death in a cohort of injecting drug users, 1980-2001

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1214-1220

  Copeland, Lorraine ^a   Budd, John ^a   Robertson, J Roy ^a,b,d   Elton, Rob A ^c  

^a Muirhouse Medical Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Statistical Services   (United Kingdom)

^d Edinburgh Drug Addiction Study   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; ADOLESCENT; COMORBIDITY; INTOXICATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; SCOTLAND; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUICIDE;

EID: 3042648818     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.11.1214     Document Type: Article

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