@article{f38b938eef804cd0b8ce24798a58063b,
title = "Chronic disease among seventh‐day adventists, a low‐risk group. Rationale, methodology, and description of the population",
author = "Beeson, \{W. Lawrence\} and Mills, \{Paul K.\} and Phillips, \{Roland L.\} and Mieko Andress and Fraser, \{Gary E.\}",
note = "The Adventist Health Study is a prospective cohort study of 34,198 non‐Hispanic white Seventh‐day Adventists (13,857 men; 20,341 women, age 25-100 years) followed for 6 years (1977-1982). Within this population, 55.2\% were lacto‐ovovegetarian (consumed meat, poultry, or fish less than one time per week with no restrictions as to egg or dairy product consumption) in 1976 and most abstained from alcohol, tobacco, and pork products.",
year = "1989",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/1097-0142(19890801)64:3570::AID-CNCR28206403033.0.CO;2-4",
language = "American English",
volume = "64",
pages = "570--581",
journal = "Cancer",
issn = "0008-543X",
number = "3",
}