Erratum: Altitude, life expectancy and mortality from ischaemic heart disease, stroke, COPD and cancers: National population-based analysis of US counties (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2012) 66 (e17) DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.112938);Altitude, life expectancy and mortality from ischaemic heart disease, stroke, COPD and cancers: National population-based analysis of US counties

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 752-

  Ezzati, Majid ^a,b   Horwitz, Mara E M ^c   Thomas, Deborah S K ^d   Friedman, Ari B ^e   Roach, Robert ^f   Clark, Timothy ^g   Murray, Christopher J L ^c   Honigman, Benjamin ^f  

^a Imperial College London   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Inspector General   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SMOKING; SOLAR RADIATION; STROKE;

UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864000873     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.112938.corr1     Document Type: Erratum

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