Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1272-1277

  Osler, Merete ^a,b   Petersen, Liselotte ^c   Prescott, Eva ^c   Teasdale, Thomas W ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adoption cohort; Mortality; Parental social class

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; CLASS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MORTALITY RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD REARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATHER; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOPTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FATHERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33750206242     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl045     Document Type: Article

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