Expanding the frontiers of women's health research — US style

Pinn, Vivian W

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05380.x

Topics

Women's health

Sex analyses in studies can have clinical implications

Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

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