Self-rated Health and Medical Outcomes in the Women ’ s Health Initiative: The Aging Continuum, Health, Morbidity, Mortality

Robert Brunner^1*, Marcia L. Stefanick², Aaron K. Aragaki³, Shirley A.A. Beresford⁴, F. Allan Hubbell⁵, Andrea LaCroix³, Dorothy S. Lane⁶, Stephen R. Rapp⁷, Monika M. Safford⁸, Nazmus Saquib⁹, Nelson B. Watts¹⁰ and Nancy Fugate Woods¹¹

¹University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA

²Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

³WHI Clinical Coordinating Center, Seattle, WA, USA

⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

⁵University of California, Irvine, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA, USA

⁶Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA

⁷Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

⁸University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

⁹Prevention Research Center, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

¹⁰Mercy Health Osteoporosis and Bone Health Services, Cincinnati OH, USA

¹¹Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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