Major Causes of Death among Men and Women in China
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- 15 September 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 353 (11) , 1124-1134
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa050467
Abstract
With China's rapid economic development, the disease burden may have changed in the country. We studied the major causes of death and modifiable risk factors in a nationally representative cohort of 169,871 men and women 40 years of age and older in China.Keywords
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