Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease incidence.

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Published in Lancet on July 26, 1997

Authors

M G Marmot1, H Bosma, H Hemingway, E Brunner, S Stansfeld

Author Affiliations

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

Associated clinical trials:

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

Clinician Burnout and Social Determinants | NCT04070456

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