Age at menopause, cause-specific mortality and total life expectancy

Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 556-562

  Ossewaarde, Marlies E ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^a   Verbeek, André L M ^b   Peeters, Petra H M ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Van Der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 20544458654     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000165392.35273.d4     Document Type: Article

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