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The non-linear risk of mortality by income level in a healthy population: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey mortality follow-up cohort, 1988–2001

David H Rehkopf1 email, Lisa F Berkman2 email, Brent Coull3 email and Nancy Krieger2 email

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 185 Berry Street, Lobby 5, Suite 5700, Campus Box 0560, San Francisco CA 94118, USA

Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA

Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA

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BMC Public Health 2008, 8:383doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-383

Published: 10 November 2008

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Additional File 1:

Table of occupational classifications. The data provided describes the categorization of the NHANES III occupational categories in order to create the occupation variable used as a covariate in the analysis.

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