{"title":"Nurses' Health Study","authors":"","doi":"10.32388/eewxwj","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"T he Nurses' Health Study was begun in 1976 with the establishment of a cohort of 120,700 women aged 30-55 and was principally designed to assess risk factors for breast cancer. Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (T exas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states. T hese women report on exposures and disease outcomes every two years and follow-up in the cohort has been maintained at a level of better than 90% through 1990. Qeios · Definition, February 2, 2020","PeriodicalId":18507,"journal":{"name":"Medsurg nursing : official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses","volume":"46 24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"160","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medsurg nursing : official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32388/eewxwj","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
T he Nurses' Health Study was begun in 1976 with the establishment of a cohort of 120,700 women aged 30-55 and was principally designed to assess risk factors for breast cancer. Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (T exas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states. T hese women report on exposures and disease outcomes every two years and follow-up in the cohort has been maintained at a level of better than 90% through 1990. Qeios · Definition, February 2, 2020
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MEDSURG Nursing, The Journal of Adult Health, is the official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). The journal provides its readers with the multidisciplinary information they need to provide clinically excellent patient care and to enhance their nursing practice. MEDSURG Nursing supports adult health/medical-surgical nurses as they strive for excellence in patient care, private practice, and outpatient health care settings in urban, suburban, and rural locations. Each peer-reviewed issue of MEDSURG Nursing features a comprehensive discussion and description of today"s clinical issues in adult health/medical-surgical nursing.
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