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Does Educational Status Impact Adult Mortality in Denmark? A Twin Approach

To disentangle an independent effect of educational status on mortality risk from direct and indirect selection mechanisms, the authors used a discordant twin pair design, which allowed them to isolate the effect of education by means of adjustment for genetic and environmental confounding per desig...

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Autores principales: Madsen, Mia, Andersen, Anne-Marie Nybo, Christensen, Kaare, Andersen, Per Kragh, Osler, Merete
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20530466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq072