Premorbid (early life) IQ and Later Mortality Risk: Systematic Review

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-288

  Batty, G David ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a   Gottfredson, Linda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; IQ; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMBASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEASUREMENT; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE DATABASE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33947394839     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2006.07.010     Document Type: Review

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