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Alternate Title(s): WHI
Description: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is a longitudinal national health study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) that focuses on strategies for preventing heart disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women in the United States. The study includes data from 161,808 women aged 50-79 years old at the time of enrollment. Available...
Subject: Cancer

Chronic Disease

Genomics

Health Status

Mental Health

Risk Factors
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Alternate Title(s): NHS, NHS I, NHS II, NHS3, GUTS, Growing Up Today Study, GUTS
Authors: Frank Speizer

Susan Hankinson

Walter Willett
Description: The Nurses' Health Studies (NHS) are long-running, questionnaire-based studies on women's health. The study was initiated in 1976 with the NHS cohort. The initial studies focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and risk factors for chronic health issues in women. The latest cohort, NH3, has been expanded to include both male and female registered nurses and nursing students. Survey and biospecimen...
Subject: Cancer

Chronic Disease

Health Status

Population Characteristics

Risk Factors
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Alternate Title(s): NYUWHS
Authors: Yu Chen

Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte

Alan A. Arslan

Yelena Afanasyeva

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Description: Data from the ongoing NYU Women's Health Study include biospecimens and survey data with variables concerning health conditions, reproductive history, and dietary habits. Between 1985 and 1991, the NYU Women's Health Study enrolled 14,274 women between the ages of 35 and 65 years old at the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute in New York City for a study of endogenous hormones, diet, and risk of breast...
Subject: Cancer

Chronic Disease

Health Status

Population Characteristics

Risk Factors
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Authors: Lisa Mosconi

Russell H. Swerdlow

Mony de Leon

Richard S. Isaacson

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Description: This data was generated in a study to characterize brain bioenergetics in a cohort of clinically and cognitively normal women between the ages of 40 and 50 at different endocrine transition states including premenopause (n = 15), perimenopause (n = 14), and postmenopause (n = 14) in order to study the increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease in women. All subjects received clinical, laboratory, and neuropsychological...
Subject: Chronic Disease

Neuroscience

Risk Factors
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NYU Dataset

Alternate Title(s): NYUWHS
Authors: Tess Clendenen

Shaohui Hu

Yelena Afanasyeva

Manor Askenazi

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Description: Study investigators examined blood samples from participants in the NYU Women’s Health Study (NYUWHS)--a cohort of 14,274 women enrolled between 1985 and 1991 through a breast cancer screening center in New York City--to identify autoantibodies associated with healthy women. The blood samples were collected at the time of enrollment and at annual screening visits until 1991 and long term follow-up...
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Authors: Haipeng Sun

Pamella Yamada

Alexandra Paetow

Michael Chan

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Description: Between August 2017 and April 2019, 303 women in their first or second gestational trimester were enrolled in an interventional randomized controlled trial to investigate the outcomes associated with dietary plans with different proportions of total carbohydrates. Eligible women were aged 18 to 45 years old who did not have a high risk pregnancy, chronic renal disease, cancer, congestive heart failure,...
Subject: Pregnancy

Risk Factors
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Authors: David M. Abramson
Description: Between July 25, 2016 and December 22, 2017, investigators conducted a longitudinal study with repeated panel surveys to understand attitudes and behaviors related to the emerging Zika virus among women of child-bearing age. Study participants included a representative survey sample of US women aged 18 to 45 years old who had participated in a related study about perceptions of the Zika virus (n=75)...
Subject: Infectious Disease
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