Parental death during childhood and adult cardiovascular risk in a developing country: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: In observational studies from western countries childhood emotional adversity is usually associated with adult cardiovascular disease. These findings are open to contextual biases making evidence from other settings valuable. We examined the association of a potential marker of childhood...

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Main Authors: C Mary Schooling, ChaoQiang Jiang, Tai Hing Lam, WeiSen Zhang, Kar Keung Cheng, Gabriel M Leung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3095611?pdf=render