Association between offspring intelligence and parental mortality: A population-based cohort study of one million Swedish men and their parents

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 722-727

  Modig Wennerstad, K ^a   Silventoinen, K ^b   Batty, D ^c,d   Tynelius, P ^e   Bergman, L ^f   Rasmussen, F ^a,e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MATERNAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PATERNITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FATHER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTHER; OCCUPATION; PARENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; PARENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 47949128770     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.065623     Document Type: Article

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