Cohort Profile: Geelong Osteoporosis Study

Julie A Pasco; Geoff C Nicholson; Mark A Kotowicz

Journal article

Cohort Profile: Geelong Osteoporosis Study

Julie A Pasco, Geoff C Nicholson, Mark A Kotowicz

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr148

University of Melbourne Researchers

Mark Kotowicz Author

Julie Pasco Author

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Grants

Awarded by Victorian Health Promotion Foundation

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

The work was supported in the early 1990s with funding from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (ID 91-0095); subsequent core funding was secured from the National Health and Medical Research Council (ID 251638, ID 299831, ID 628582); the Geelong Region Medical Research Foundation; Barwon Health, Perpetual Trustees; the Dairy Research and Development Corporation; the University of Melbourne; the Ronald Geoffrey Arnott Foundation; ANZ Charitable Trust; the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and Amgen (Europe) GmBH. The study was approved by the Barwon Health, Human Research Ethics Committee (ID 92/01 and ID 00/56).