Age at Menopause: Imputing Age at Menopause for Women With a Hysterectomy With Application to Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 450-460

  Rosner, Bernard ^a   Colditz, Graham A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Imputation; Menopause

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955599532     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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