Design, objectives, and lessons from a pilot 25 year follow up re-survey of survivors in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on June 01, 1998

Authors

R Clarke1, E Breeze, P Sherliker, M Shipley, L Youngman, A Fletcher, R Fuhrer, D Leon, S Parish, R Collins, M Marmot

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Trial Service Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

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