Sexual orientation, health risk factors, and physical functioning in the Nurses' Health Study II.

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Published in J Womens Health (Larchmt) on November 01, 2004

Authors

Patricia Case1, S Bryn Austin, David J Hunter, Joann E Manson, Susan Malspeis, Walter C Willett, Donna Spiegelman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. patricia_case@hms.harvard.edu

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