Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 8 , Pages 685-695 , August 2006

Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study

  • J.E. Ferrie

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +442076795643; fax: +442078130288.
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  • M.J. Shipley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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  • E. Breeze

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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  • G. Davey Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Received 9 September 2005 ,Revised 1 February 2006 ,Accepted 15 February 2006.

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