Mortality after Parental Death in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Three Nordic Countries

Jiong Li and colleagues examine mortality rates in children who lost a parent before 18 years old compared with those who did not using population-based data from Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2014

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  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001679PMID 25051501PMCID 4106717
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