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Origin, Methods, and Evolution of the Three Nurses’ Health Studies

Ying Bao MD, ScD, Monica L. Bertoia PhD, MPH, Elizabeth B. Lenart PhD, Meir J. Stampfer MD, DrPH, Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH, Frank E. Speizer MD, and Jorge E. Chavarro MD, ScD

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Correspondence should be sent to Ying Bao, MD, ScD, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: ). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints” link.

CONTRIBUTORS

Y. Bao and M. L. Bertoia contributed equally to this work and should be considered co–first authors. Y. Bao, M. L. Bertoia, and J. E. Chavarro drafted the article. All authors critically revised the article.

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https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303338
Accepted: June 19, 2016
Published Online: August 10, 2016

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Ying Bao, MD, ScD, Monica L. Bertoia, PhD, MPH, Elizabeth B. Lenart, PhD, Meir J. Stampfer, MD, DrPH, Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, Frank E. Speizer, MD, and Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScDYing Bao, Meir J. Stampfer, and Frank E. Speizer are with the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Monica L. Bertoia, Elizabeth B. Lenart, Walter C. Willett, and Jorge E. Chavarro are with the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. “Origin, Methods, and Evolution of the Three Nurses’ Health Studies”, American Journal of Public Health 106, no. 9 (September 1, 2016): pp. 1573-1581.

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303338

PMID: 27459450