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Cognitive ability and personality as predictors of participation in a national colorectal cancer screening programme: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

BACKGROUND: The English NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme has offered biennial faecal occult blood testing to people aged 60–69 years since 2006, and to those aged 60–74 years since 2010. Analysis of the first 2.6 million screening invitations found that 54% of eligible people took up the invitat...

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Autores principales: Gale, Catharine R, Deary, Ian J, Wardle, Jane, Zaninotto, Paola, Batty, G David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4453587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204888