The Russo-Williamson thesis and the question of whether smoking causes heart disease

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gillies, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Causality; Correlation; Mechanisms; Russo williamson; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920152528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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