Clinical Disorders in a Post War British Cohort Reaching Retirement: Evidence from the First National Birth Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Pierce, Mary B ^a   Silverwood, Richard J ^b   Nitsch, Dorothea ^b   Adams, Judith E ^c   Stephen, Alison M ^d   Nip, Wing ^d   Macfarlane, Peter ^e   Wong, Andrew ^a   Richards, Marcus ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a   Kuh, Diana ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETIREMENT; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTURITION; RETIREMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84866533091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044857     Document Type: Article

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