This project has two components. Component 1 proposes to complete data collection in a complex, longitudinal study requiring six cohort interviews, as well as fully analyze the entire data set. The sixth of an integrally-designed set of six interviews will be completed in the first year of the continuation and the following two years will be devoted to intensive analysis of the resulting data set, consisting of seven interviews, completed at nin-monthly intervals over 4.5 years, on a cohort of approximately 2,500 women as they entered and experienced the menopause. The original aims to fully describe the epidemiology of the menopause--its relation to health, employment, life situation and life-style behaviors--will be addressed in the analysis. Component 2 consists of a five year, supplemental study of bone density changes on approximately 475 of the cohort, living in the Boston area and pre- or peri-menopausal at the time of the sixth Cohort Interview. This study compoent is proposed in conjunction with an already funded study of the same sub-sample of 475 women, which focuses on hormone changes over the same five year period. The purpose of this component is to describe, for the first time, bone density changes transmenopausally in a normal population and to identify pssible sub-groups at risk to very rapid bone loss.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AG003111-07
Application #
3114619
Study Section
Epidemiology and Disease Control Subcommittee 3 (EDC)
Project Start
1981-04-01
Project End
1988-06-30
Budget Start
1987-07-01
Budget End
1988-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
1987
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
American Institutes for Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02138
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McKinlay, J B (1991) Optimal survey research methods for studying health-related behaviors of older people. Vital Health Stat 5 :81-92
Avis, N E; Brambilla, D J; Vass, K et al. (1991) The effect of widowhood on health: a prospective analysis from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study. Soc Sci Med 33:1063-70

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