Cohort Profile: The Newcastle Thousand Families 1947 Birth Cohort
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- 9 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 38 (4) , 932-937
Abstract
The initial thoughts leading to the development of the Thousand Families Study arose through observations made by Sir James Spence, one of the first full-time paediatricians in the United Kingdom and from 1942, the first holder of a University Chair of Child Health in England.Keywords
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