Cohort Profile: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)

Overview

Journal Int J Epidemiol

Specialty Public Health

Date 2019 Jul 2

PMID 31257425

Citations 162

Authors

Kathleen Mullan Harris

Carolyn Tucker Halpern

Eric A Whitsel

Jon M Hussey

Ley A Killeya-Jones

Joyce Tabor

Sarah C Dean

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