Cohort Profile: The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2)
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Cohort profile: The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2).
The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) began in 2002 with the goal of investigating the role of selected foods to change the risk of cancer. AHS-2 is designed to provide more precise and comprehensive results than previous pioneering research among Seventh-day Adventists, a unique health oriented population with diverse dietary habits. The Adventist church, of 24 million adherents worldwide, prom...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym165