Are risk factors for atherothrombotic disease associated with back pain sickness absence? The Whitehall II Study.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on April 01, 1999

Authors

H Hemingway1, M Shipley, S Stansfeld, H Shannon, J Frank, E Brunner, M Marmot

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School.

Associated clinical trials:

Whitehall II - Social and Occupational Influences On Health and Illness | NCT00005680

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