Invited commentary: The 21st century epidemiologist-a need for different training?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 176, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 668-671

  Kuller, Lewis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; genomics; individualized medicine; metabolomics; molecular biology; molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; TRAINING; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN DEATH;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PATHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84867734462     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws227     Document Type: Article

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