Citation

Tyrer F, Smith LK, McGrother CW. J. Intellect. Disabil. Res. 2007; 51(7): 520-527.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00918.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background  People with intellectual disability (ID) experience a variety of health inequalities compared with the general population including higher mortality rates. This is the first UK population-based study to measure the extent of excess mortality in people with ID compared with the general population.