Assessment of postpartum time-dependent disease risk in case-control studies: An application for examining age-specific effect estimates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1545-1556

  Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^a,c   Lan, Shou Jen ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029901193     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960730)15:14<1545::AID-SIM292>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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