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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):540-541; doi:10.1093/ije/dym110
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Commentary: Life-course and social epidemiology, the biological fig leaf and Bob Dylan

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

Research Director, National Institute of Public Health, Oster Farimagsgade 5A, DK-1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

E-mail: ana@niph.dk

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The life-course approach to adult disease is highlighted in epidemiological research these years, and, although life-course thinking covers much more than social epidemiology, social and demographic factors as early life exposures are prominent in this focus.

Prospective studies of life-course influences on adult disease rely on the data available. Luckily, our predecessors set up a few large-scale studies that, in turn, ended up being cohort studies with repeated data collection sweeps, where follow-ups were combined with continuous collection of exposure data.1 The 1958 British cohort is one of these gold mines for life-course research. The latest data collection sweep included a clinical examination of all available participants at age 44–45 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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