Marital status and mortality among middle age and elderly men and women in urban Shanghai

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Va, Puthiery ^a   Yang, Wan Shui ^b,c   Nechuta, Sarah ^d   Chow, Wong Ho ^e   Cai, Hui ^d   Yang, Gong ^d   Gao, Shan ^b,c   Gao, Yu Tang ^c   Zheng, Wei ^d   Shu, Xiao Ou ^d   Xiang, Yong Bing ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEN'S HEALTH; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; CHINA; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80355129330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026600     Document Type: Article

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