Own education, current conditions, parental material circumstances, and risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on February 01, 2000

Authors

M Bobák1, C Hertzman, Z Skodová, M Marmot

Author Affiliations

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

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