The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 10 , Pages 947-954 , October 2009

Inflammation and Thrombosis Biomarkers and Incident Frailty in Postmenopausal Women

  • Alexander P. Reiner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash
    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests should be addressed to Alexander P. Reiner, MD, Department of Epidemiology, Box 357236, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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  • Aaron K. Aragaki, MS

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash
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  • Shelly L. Gray, PharmD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Geriatric Pharmacy Program, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
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  • Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
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  • Jane A. Cauley, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penn
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  • Barbara B. Cochrane, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash
    • School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
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  • Charles L. Kooperberg, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash
    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
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  • Nancy F. Woods, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash
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  • Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash
    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash

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 Funding: The Women's Health Initiative program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US Department of Health and Human Services. A full listing of Women's Health Initiative investigators can be found at http://www.whiscience.org/publications/WHI_investigators_shortlist.pdf. This article was supported by grant R01 AG025441 to Dr LaCroix from the National Institute of Aging.

 Conflict of Interest: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest associated with the work presented in this manuscript.

 Authorship: All authors had access to the data and played a role in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00539-7

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.04.016

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 10 , Pages 947-954 , October 2009

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