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- Title
Association between number of siblings and cause-specific mortality in the Glasgow alumni cohort study.
- Authors
B. Galobardes; P. McCarron; M. Jeffreys; G. Davey Smith
- Abstract
Abstract  In the Glasgow University Alumni cohort, students with no siblings experienced higher respiratory disease mortality. This risk diminished after accounting for potential confounders. We did not find strong evidence of an association with all cause, coronary heart disease, stroke or stomach cancer mortality. Number of siblings is a proxy for other exposures and exploring its association with specific disease outcomes can help disentangle some of the pathways relating early life exposures to adult mortality.
- Subjects
GLASGOW (Scotland); SCOTLAND; RESPIRATORY diseases; COHORT analysis
- Publication
European Journal of Epidemiology, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
0393-2990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10654-007-9210-6