The Women's Health Initiative. What is on trial: Nutrition and chronic disease? Or misinterpreted science, media havoc and the sound of silence from peers?

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 269-272

  Yngve, Agneta ^a   Hambraeus, Leif ^a   Lissner, Lauren ^b   Majem, Lluis Serra ^c,d   De Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz ^e,f   Berg, Christina ^g   Hughes, Roger ^h   Cannon, Geoffrey ⁱ   Thorsdottir, Inga ^j,k   Kearney, John ^l   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^m   Rafter, Joseph ^m   Elmadfa, Ibrahim ⁿ   Kennedy, Nick ^o  

^a Unit for Preventive Nutrition   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d Sociedad Espanola de Nutricion Comunitaria (Spanish Society of Public Health Nutrition)   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f Portuguese Society for Nutrition and Food Sciences   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^h GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ University of Iceland ^*

^j LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^l DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^m KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^o TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIET; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PUBLIC HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33646487446     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2006952     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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