1Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
3Endocrine, Skeletal Health and Osteoporosis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
4Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
5Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
6Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
7HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN
8Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Address correspondence to: Carolyn J. Crandall, MD, MS, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, UCLA Medicine/GIM, 911 Broxton Ave, 1st floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 30 March, 2016
Revised 2 May, 2016
Accepted 2 May, 2016
Study conception and design—C.J.C.; acquisition of data—J.W.W., M.S.L., J.A.C., K.L.M., J.E.M., J.A.C.; statistical analysis—C.A. and A.A.; data interpretation—C.J.C., A.K.A., M.S.L., W.L., J.W.W., J.A.C., K.L.M., and J.E.M.; drafting of manuscript—C.J.C.; critical revision of manuscript for important intellectual content—C.J.C., A.K.A., M.S.L., W.L., J.W.W., J.A.C., K.L.M., and J.E.M.
Funding/support: The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HH SN271201100004C.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: M.S.L. at Brigham and Women's Hospital has received funding from the NIH determining effects of randomized vitamin D supplementation in on bone density structure and architecture and for prevention of fractures. J.E.M. at Brigham and Women's Hospital receive funding from the NIH for a randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease. C.J.C., W.L., J.W.W., K.L.M., J.A.C., and A.K.A. report no conflicts of interest.
