"A delicate diplomatic situation": tobacco industry efforts to gain control of the Framingham Study

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 841-853

  Cataldo, Janine K ^a   Bero, Lisa A ^a   Malone, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; FUNDING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953553236     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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