Journal article
The InterLACE study: Design, data harmonization and characteristics across 20 studies on women's health
GD Mishra, HF Chung, N Pandeya, AJ Dobson, L Jones, NE Avis, SL Crawford, EB Gold, D Brown, LL Sievert, E Brunner, JE Cade, VJ Burley, DC Greenwood, GG Giles, F Bruinsma, A Goodman, K Hayashi, JS Lee, H Mizunuma Show all
Maturitas | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
Objectives The International Collaboration for a Life Course Approach to Reproductive Health and Chronic Disease Events (InterLACE) project is a global research collaboration that aims to advance understanding of women's reproductive health in relation to chronic disease risk by pooling individual participant data from several cohort and cross-sectional studies. The aim of this paper is to describe the characteristics of contributing studies and to present the distribution of demographic and reproductive factors and chronic disease outcomes in InterLACE. Study design InterLACE is an individual-level pooled study of 20 observational studies (12 of which are longitudinal) from ten countries. V..
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Funding Acknowledgements
InterLACE is funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1027196, APP1000986). G. D. Mishra is supported by the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT120100812). The funders had no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of this manuscript; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.