Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 179-186 , July 2005

Ethnic differences in past hysterectomy for benign conditions

  • Lynda H. Powell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Peter Meyer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Gerson Weiss, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Gerson Weiss, MD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 185 So. Orange Ave., MSB-E506, Newark, NJ 07106
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  • Karen A. Matthews, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Nanette Santoro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albert Einstein Medical School, New York, New York
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  • John F. Randolph Jr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Miriam Schocken, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
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  • Joan Skurnick, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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  • Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 Supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Nursing Research U01grant numbers AG12553, AG12495, AG12546, AG12535, AG12531, AG12505, AG12554, AG12539, NR04061.

PII: S1049-3867(05)00039-3

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2005.05.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 179-186 , July 2005

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