Abstract

The objectives of each Vanguard Clinical Center is to cooperate with the Clinical Coordinating Center in developing, implementing and refining the overall program to ensure its feasibility and optimize it operationally before the additional Clinical Centers commence recruitment. The Vanguard Clinical Centers are to assist in the development, testing and implementation of the forms/questionnaires and procedures needed to recruit a group of postmenopausal U.S. women age 50-79, randomize them to a number of interventions, ensure adherence and adequate follow-up, and collect and transmit data and biological samples as needed for the ascertainment of the outcomes of the Clinical Trial and Observational Study. Major outcome will be coronary heart disease, breast neoplasms and osteoporosis.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Women'S Health Initiative - Office of The Director Nih (WH)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01WH032105-007
Application #
2326526
Study Section
Project Start
1993-03-15
Project End
2005-09-14
Budget Start
1995-06-28
Budget End
1997-07-14
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1995
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Alabama Birmingham
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
004514360
City
Birmingham
State
AL
Country
United States
Zip Code
35294

  Publications

Gong, J; Nishimura, K K; Fernandez-Rhodes, L et al. (2018) Trans-ethnic analysis of metabochip data identifies two new loci associated with BMI. Int J Obes (Lond) 42:384-390
Jo Hodonsky, Chani; Schurmann, Claudia; Schick, Ursula M et al. (2018) Generalization and fine mapping of red blood cell trait genetic associations to multi-ethnic populations: The PAGE Study. Am J Hematol :
Cauley, Jane A; Danielson, Michelle E; Jammy, Guru Rajesh et al. (2017) Sex Steroid Hormones and Fracture in a Multiethnic Cohort of Women: The Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI). J Clin Endocrinol Metab 102:1538-1547
Yoneyama, S; Yao, J; Guo, X et al. (2017) Generalization and fine mapping of European ancestry-based central adiposity variants in African ancestry populations. Int J Obes (Lond) 41:324-331
Kato, Ikuko; Lane, Dorothy; Womack, Catherine R et al. (2017) Interaction between Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Low-fat Dietary Intervention on Colorectal Cancer Incidence; the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Trial. J Am Coll Nutr 36:462-469
Kraja, Aldi T; Cook, James P; Warren, Helen R et al. (2017) New Blood Pressure-Associated Loci Identified in Meta-Analyses of 475?000 Individuals. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 10:
Bao, Ying; Prescott, Jennifer; Yuan, Chen et al. (2017) Leucocyte telomere length, genetic variants at the TERT gene region and risk of pancreatic cancer. Gut 66:1116-1122
Chlebowski, Rowan T; Barrington, Wendy; Aragaki, Aaron K et al. (2017) Estrogen alone and health outcomes in black women by African ancestry: a secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial. Menopause 24:133-141
Pan, Kathy; Chlebowski, Rowan T; Simon, Michael S et al. (2016) Medication use trajectories of postmenopausal breast cancer survivors and matched cancer-free controls. Breast Cancer Res Treat 156:567-576
Zaslavsky, Oleg; Woods, Nancy F; LaCroix, Andrea Z et al. (2016) Identification of Risk Factors for Mortality and Poor-Quality-of-Life Survival in Frail Older Women Participating in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 64:831-7

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