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How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability.
Maturitas - 1 Aug 2011
Whalley Lawrence J, Murray Alison D, Staff Roger T, Starr John M, Deary Ian J, Fox Helen C, Lemmon Helen, Duthie Susan J, Collins Andrew R, Crawford John R
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OBJECTIVES: To describe the discovery and development of the Aberdeen 1921 and 1936 birth cohort studies. STUDY DESIGN: The Aberdeen birth cohort studies were started in 1998 when the Scottish Mental Survey archives of the Scottish Council for Research in Education were re-discovered and permissions granted to follow-up survivors born in 1921 or 1936 and then aged about 77 or 64 years and who had entered (or were...
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