Showing papers by "Nemat O. Borhani published in 1979"

TL;DR: Survival of a cohort of 619 persons who had a spinal-cord injury while resident in one of 18 Northern California counties was determined according to external cause of the injury, level of impairment, age and sex, and the relative risk of death decreased with age for each of these parameters.

TL;DR: It is suggested that smoking behavior be included as a variable in studies of the relationship between psychological stress and illness.