McCartney, G;
Shipley, M;
Hart, C;
Davey-Smith, G;
Kivimäki, M;
Walsh, D;
Watt, GC;
(2012)
Why do males in Scotland die younger than those in England? Evidence from three prospective cohort studies.
PLOS One
, 7
(7)
, Article e38860. 10.1371/journal.pone.0038860.
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Abstract
To examine explanations for the higher rates of male mortality in two Scottish cohorts compared with a cohort in south-east England for which similar data were collected.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Why do males in Scotland die younger than those in England? Evidence from three prospective cohort studies. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0038860 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038860 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 McCartney et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. No specific funding was obtained for the analyses in this paper, although MS is supported by the British Heart Foundation, CH by NHS Health Scotland and MK by the Medical Research Council, UK. The United States National Institutes of Health (R01HL036310; R01AG034454), the Academy of Finland, and a BUPA Foundation Specialist Research Grant, United Kingdom. The original Whitehall study was funded by the then Department for Health and Social Security of the UK Government and the Tobacco Research Council. The Collaborative study was originally funded by the Scottish Home and Health Department and the Renfrew & Paisley study was supported by the Renfrewshire King Edward Memorial Trust and the Scottish Home and Health Department. The employing institutions and funders played no part in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of data, the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the article for publication. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1362694 |
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