Long term effects of hysterectomy on mortality: Nested cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7506, 2005, Pages 1482-1485

  Iversen, Lisa ^a   Hannaford, Philip C ^a   Elliott, Alison M ^a   Lee, Amanda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PARITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; UTERUS MYOMA; AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY;

EID: 21244483842     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38483.669178.8F     Document Type: Article

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