1Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
4Department of Human Genetics and Biostatistics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
5Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
6Center for Health Research NW, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR
7Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
8Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
9Department of Human Genetics and Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Address correspondence to: Carolyn J. Crandall, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Medicine/GIM, 911 Broxton Avenue, 1st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 6 July, 2016
Revised 17 August, 2016
Accepted 17 August, 2016
C.H. had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of data analysis; study concept and design: C.J.C., J.S.S.; acquisition of data: J.E.M., J.W.-W.; analysis and interpretation of data: all authors; drafting of the manuscript: C.J.C.; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: all authors; statistical analysis: C.H.; obtained funding: J.E.M., J.W.-W.
Representatives of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute participated in Women's Health Initiative committees that had a role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparations, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Funding/support: The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C. J.S.S. is partially funded by NIH grant GM053275 and NSF grant DMS 1264153.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: The following authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose: C.J.C., S.H., J.S.S., M.Z.V., C.H., R.N., J.W.-W., and J.E.M. E.S.L.'s institution has received funding from Amgen Inc, Astrazeneca, Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, and Merck for research projects unrelated to the current manuscript.
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