Cohort profile: The danish nurse cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1241-1247

  Hundrup, Yrsa A ^a   Simonsen, Mette K ^b   Jørgensen, Torben ^a   Obel, Erik B ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP FRACTURE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTERED NURSE; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; WORKPLACE;

DENMARK;

EID: 84867596661     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr042     Document Type: Article

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