Does happiness itself directly affect mortality? the prospective UK Million Women Study

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10021, 2016, Pages 874-881

  Liu, Bette ^a   Floud, Sarah ^b   Pirie, Kirstin ^b   Green, Jane ^b   Peto, Richard ^b   Beral, Valerie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84959458754     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01087-9     Document Type: Article

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