By Anonymous - November 6, 2018

Derived Covariates

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Baseline

The following variables are derived from the baseline questionnaire
.

DEMOGRAPHICS

* Income

* Education

* Gender

* Marriage

* Employment

* Age

* BMI

* State/Region

* W Race/Ethnicity

HEALTH

* V Diagnosis/Treatment
(dxtx)
* V Cancer
Figure out how to structure this. Hierarchical(?)
* V Prostate cancer

* V Breast cancer

* W Medications

FEMALE

* W Mammogram

* W Hormone Replacement Therapy and Birth Control Pill
(HRT and BCP)
* P Menopause

* W Birth-related

LIFESTYLE

* P Smoking

* W Alcohol

* Outdoor exposure

* P Exercise

* Sleep

* TV

* D Region

* D Metabolic Equivalent Task

DIETARY

* Dietary Pattern

MISC

* D Time Between Two Time-points

* D Energy Adjustment

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Shortform

The 24-hour dietary recall
(aka the shortform) was sent to a small subset to create a model to predict the missing variables.
The following variables are derived from the short-form questionnaire.
* D Non-dietary Covariates

* D Dietary Covariates

Hospitalization History Forms (HHF)

The Hospitalization History Forms (HHFs)
are a series of short (but increasingly informative) 4-page forms sent approximately every two years.
The following variables are derived from the HHFs.

DEMOGRAPHICS

* P Residence
- HHF4
* W Meal data
- HHF4