The women's health initiative observational study: Baseline characteristics of participants and reliability of baseline measures

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Langer, Robert D ^a,g   White, Emily ^b   Lewis, Cora E ^c   Kotchen, Jane M ^d   Hendrix, Susan L ^e   Trevisan, Maurizio ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^g Women's Health Initiative   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort Study; Exposure Assessment; Postmenopausal Women; Women's Health

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0142217570     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(03)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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