Titre : | Recall of early menstrual history and menarcheal body size : After 30 years, how well do women remember ? (2002) |
Auteurs : | A. MUST ; M. BLUM ; B. DAWSON-HUGHES ; S. HARRIS ; E.N. NAUMOVA ; S.M. PHILLIPS ; W.M. RAND ; Calcium and Metabolic Bone Laboratory. Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. Tufts University. Boston. MA. USA ; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. School of Medicine. Tufts University. Boston MA. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 155, n° 7, 2002) |
Pagination : | 672-679 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Homme ; Femme ; Menstruation ; Evaluation ; Age ; Taille corporelle ; Questionnaire ; Epidémiologie ; Validité |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS bVWR0xlD. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The validity of recall of early menstrual characteristics is of interest because of their putative role in the etiology of breast cancer and other diseases. A retrospective follow-up of the Newton Girls Study (1965-1975) provided an opportunity to assess the accuracy and precision of recall of several early menstrual characteristics. In 1998-1999,57 percent of the original 793 Newton Girls Study participants completed a mailed questionnaire to assess the accuracy of recall for age and body size at menarche, usual cycle length during the first 2 years, and age at regularity. Recalled and original age at menarche were highly correlated (r=0.79, p |