Seasonal variation in cause-specific mortality: are there high-risk groups? 25-year follow-up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on October 01, 2001

Authors

C T van Rossum1, M J Shipley, H Hemingway, D E Grobbee, J P Mackenbach, M G Marmot

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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