Parada, Humberto Jr
McDonald, Emily
Bellettiere, John
Evenson, Kelly R.
LaMonte, Michael J.
LaCroix, Andrea Z.
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (U54 CA132384, K01 CA234317)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (P30 AG059299)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL105065)
Article History
Received: 17 July 2019
Revised: 23 January 2020
Accepted: 30 January 2020
First Online: 5 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in the WHI OPACH Study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Institutional Review Board (Protocol 3467-EXT), Seattle, WA, and in compliance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All women gave written informed consent.
: No individually identifiable data are presented.
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during this study are not publicly available, but may be available from WHI study on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The OPACH Study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through R01HL105065 (PI: LaCroix). The WHI program is funded by NHLBI, NIH and HHS through contracts HHSN268 201600018 C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN2682016 00002C, HHSN268201600003C and HHSN26820160 0004C. K.R. Evenson was supported by the National Cancer Institute and Office of the Director (R01CA227122). H. Parada Jr was supported by the National Cancer Institute (K01 CA234317), the SDSU/UCSD Cancer Center Comprehensive Partnership (U54 CA132384 and U54 CA132379) and by the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for advancing Minority Aging Research at the University of California San Diego (P30AG059299).