The Rising Relative Risk of Mortality for Singles: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
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The rising relative risk of mortality for singles: meta-analysis and meta-regression.
Never-married persons (singles) constitute a growing demographic group; yet, the magnitude of the all-cause relative mortality risk for nonelderly singles is not known and important moderating factors have not been explored. The authors used meta-analysis to examine 641 risk estimates from 95 publications that provided data on more than 500 million persons. The comparison group consisted of cur...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1476-6256,0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr111