Association of hemoglobin concentration with total and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of postmenopausal women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 911-919

  Kabat, Geoffrey C ^a   Kim, Mimi Y ^a   Verma, Amit K ^a   Manson, JoAnn E ^b,c   Lessin, Lawrence S ^d   Kamensky, Victor ^a   Lin, Juan ^a   Wassertheil Smoller, Sylvia ^a   Rohan, Thomas E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; cancer mortality; coronary heart disease mortality; hemoglobin; total mortality

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; HEMOGLOBIN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; AGE; AGED; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANEMIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84971516569     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv332     Document Type: Article

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