Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage?

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

• Publication date

  1995-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/jech.49.1.5PMID 7707006PMCID PMC1060066
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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