1Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR
2Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
4Warren Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health of Brown University, Providence, RI
5Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI
6Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
7MedStar, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
8University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA
9University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
10Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Address correspondence to: Erin S. LeBlanc, MD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, 3800N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 5 January, 2016
Revised 18 May, 2016
Accepted 18 May, 2016
E.S.L. contributed to the study conception, design, and interpretation of results, and developed the first draft of the manuscript. K.K., H.H., and M.D. contributed to the study conception and design, researched and analyzed the data, contributed to interpretation of results, and reviewed/edited the manuscript. The remaining authors contributed to the study conception and design and reviewed/edited the manuscript. The final draft for submission was approved by all authors. E.S.L. is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the data analysis.
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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, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: E.S.L.'s institute had received research funding from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol Meyers Squibb, and Merck for unrelated projects. Support for M.E.W. was provided by NIH grant KL2TR000160. The other authors had no conflicts to report.
