Cohort Profile: UK COSMOS-a UK cohort for study of environment and health

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 775-787

  Toledano, Mireille B ^a   Smith, Rachel B ^a   Chang, Irene ^a   Douglass, Margaret ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; MOBILE PHONE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; FUNDING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELL PHONE; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84949597858     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv203     Document Type: Article

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