Parity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Older Women: How Do Pregnancy Complications Mediate the Association?

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 873-879

  Catov, Janet M ^a,b   Newman, Anne B ^b   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^b   Harris, Tamara B ^c   Tylavsky, Francis ^d   Visser, Marjolein ^e   Ayonayon, Hilsa N ^f   Ness, Roberta B ^a,b  

^a Epidemiology and Womens Studies   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^c Demography and Biometry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular Disease; Parity; Pregnancy Complications

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; STATIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BIRTH; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN DISEASE; PARITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SELF REPORT; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; PARITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56549127931     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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