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A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology
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- Creator
- edited by Diana Kuh and Yoav Ben Shlomo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xix, 473 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780198578154, 0198578156
- OCLC
- ocm53911747
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- The life course and adult chronic disease: an historical perspective with particular reference to coronary heart disease -- Pre-adult influences on cardiovascular disease -- Life course approaches to socioeconomic differentials in health -- Ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease mortality trends with special reference to England and Wales: are there cohort effects? -- Geography and migration with special reference to cardiovascular disease -- A life course approach to diabetes -- A life course approach to obesity -- A life course approach to blood pressure --A life course approach to respiratory and allergic diseases -- A life course approach to cancer epidemiology -- Time trends in cancer incidence and mortality -- A life course approach to biological ageing -- A life course approach to neuropsychiatric outcomes -- Fetal growth and development: the role of nutrition and other factors -- Socioenconomic pathways between childhood and adult health -- Should we intervene to improve fetal and infant growth? -- Should we intervene to improve childhood circumstances? -- Conclusions
Subjects
- Chronic diseases -- Etiology.
- Chronic diseases -- Risk factors.
- Chronic Disease -- epidemiology.
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- Disease -- etiology.
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- Life Style.
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- Risk Factors.
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