HealthViEWS: Mortality study of female US Vietnam era veterans, 1965-2010

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 721-730

  Kang, Han K ^a   Cypel, Yasmin ^a   Kilbourne, Amy M ^a   Magruder, Kathy M ^a   Serpi, Tracey ^a   Collins, Joseph F ^a   Frayne, Susan M ^a   Furey, Joan ^a   Huang, Grant D ^a   Kimerling, Rachel ^a   Reinhard, Matthew J ^a   Schumacher, Karen ^a   Spiro, Avron ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

HealthViEWS; mortality; veterans; Vietnam; women

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; WAR; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VETERAN;

UNITED STATES;

HEALTHVIEWS; MORTALITY; VETERANS; VIETNAM; WOMEN;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84895875011     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt319     Document Type: Article

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