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Disclosure of Sexual Orientation and Behavior in the Nurses' Health Study II

Results from a Pilot Study

Patricia Case ScD Fenway Institute, Fenway Community Health, USA
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S. Bryn Austin ScD Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
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David J. Hunter MBBS, ScD Department of Society, Human Development, and Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH Cancer Prevention in the Departments of, Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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Susan Malspeis SM Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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Joann E. Manson MD, DrPH Nurses' Health Study II, USA; Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham, Women's Hospital, USA; Harvard Medical School, USA
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Donna Spiegelman ScD Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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Pages 13-31 | Published online: 17 Oct 2008

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