Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 3 , Pages 202-210, May 2009

Racial Differences in Women Who have a Hysterectomy for Benign Conditions

  • Gerson Weiss, MD

      Affiliations

    • New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey
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  • Dorette Noorhasan, MD

      Affiliations

    • New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dorette Noorhasan, MD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, 185 South Orange Avenue, P. O. Box 1709, Newark, NJ 07101. Tel: 973-972-5266, Fax: 973-972-4574.
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  • Laura L. Schott, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • ,
  • Lynda Powell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
  • ,
  • John F. Randolph Jr., MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • ,
  • Janet M. Johnston, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Alaska Native Epidemiology Center, Anchorage, Alaska

Received 5 September 2008; received in revised form 4 March 2009; accepted 5 March 2009.

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 The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) has grant support from the National Institutes of Health, DHHS, through the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (Grants NR004061; AG012505, AG012535, AG012531, AG012539, AG012546, AG012553, AG012554, AG012495). The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIA, NINR, ORWH, or the NIH.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00026-7

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2009.03.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 3 , Pages 202-210, May 2009