A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology.

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Published in Annu Rev Public Health on January 01, 2005

Authors

John Lynch1, George Davey Smith

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104-2548, USA. jwlynch@umich.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Birth Cohort in Coast Province, Kenya | NCT02448615

Birth Cohort in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan | NCT02233127

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