Journal article
Age at menarche and risk of major cardiovascular diseases: evidence of birth cohort effects from a prospective study of 300,000 Chinese women
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Previous studies of mostly Western women have reported inconsistent findings on the association between age at menarche and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Little is known about the association in China where there has been a large intergenerational decrease in women's mean age at menarche.
Methods
The China Kadoorie Biobank recruited 302,632 women aged 30–79 (mean 50.5) years in 2004–8 from 10 diverse regional sites across China. During 7 years follow-...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.10.115
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Kadoorie Charitable Foundation
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Cardiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 227
- Pages:
- 497–502
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-30
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1874-1754
- ISSN:
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0167-5273
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pubs:656878
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- pubs:656878
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- 2016-11-03
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- Yang et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © Yang et al. 2016 Published by Elsevier under a Creative Commons license; Open Access funded by the Wellcome Trust
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