Why the study?
Do menstrual and reproductive factors affect the risk of ischemic heart disease in white, college-educated women?
Population
867 white, college-educated women who prospectively recorded menstrual cycle-data for at least 5 years from…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
44,899 person-years
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Associations between reproductive timing and IHD should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for causal research in diverse cohorts.
Do menstrual and reproductive factors affect the risk of ischemic heart disease in white, college-educated women?
Later age at menarche is associated with a decreased risk of ischemic heart disease, whereas later age at first and last birth is associated with an increased risk.
Cooper et al. (1999) studied this question.
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