Epidemiology: Count the dead, measure the living

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 317-318

  Whitlock, Gary ^a   Huxley, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79957552109     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.59     Document Type: Short Survey

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