Cohort Profile: the Whitehall II study.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on December 02, 2004

Authors

Michael Marmot1, Eric Brunner

Author Affiliations

1: International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. m.marmot@ucl.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

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

Alcohol Consumption and Arterial Stiffness: A Longitudinal Study of Pulse Wave Velocity in the Whitehall II Cohort | NCT02663791

Alcohol Consumption and Coronary Heart Disease Onset | NCT03133689

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