What is your current weight?

In the past year, what was your highest weight?

In the past year, what was your lowest weight?

Think about the walking you do outside the home. How often do you walk outside the home for more than 10 minutes without stopping? (Mark only one.)

When you walk outside the home for more than 10 minutes without stopping, for how many minutes do you usually walk?

What is your usual speed?

STRENUOUS OR VERY HARD EXERCISE (You work up a sweat and your heart beats fast). For example, aerobics, aerobic dancing, jogging, tennis, swimming laps.

How long do usually exercise like this at one time?

MODERATE EXERCISE (Not exhausting). For example, biking outdoors, use of an exercise machine (like a stationary bike or treadmill), calisthenics, easy swimming, popular and folk dancing.

How long do usually exercise like this at one time?

MILD EXERCISE. For example, slow dancing, bowling, golf.

How long do usually exercise like this at one time?

After you have been out in the sun for 45-60 minutes for the first time during summer, which describes the reaction of your unprotected skin in exposed areas?

Time outdoors/summer/During childhood (5-12 years old)

Time outdoors/summer/During your teens

Time outdoors/summer/During your thirties

Time outdoors/other seasons/During childhood (5-12 years old)

Time outdoors/other seasons/During your teens

Time outdoors/other seasons/During your thirties

Time outdoors/other seasons/This year

Wear dark glasses/During childhood (5-12 years old)

Wear dark glasses/During your teens

Wear dark glasses/During your thirties

Wear hat outdoors/During childhood (5-12 years old)

Wear hat outdoors/During your teens

Wear hat outdoors/During your thirties

During the past year, when you were outside for more than 10 minutes, did you usually use a sunscreen?

What whas the SPF (Sun Protection Factor) you usually used?

Do you smoke cigarettes now?

How many cigarettes do you usually smoke each day? (Mark one.)

Past year/Diet soda or fruit drink with Nutrasweet (like Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Crystal Light)

Past year/Diet soda or fruit drink with saccharine

Past year/A drink sweetened with Equal

Past year/A drink sweetened with Sweet N Low

Past year/A dessert made with Equal

Past year/A dessert made with Sweet N Low

Past year/A food with the fat substitute Olestra

Ten years ago/Diet soda or fruit drink with Nutrasweet (like Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Crystal Light)

Ten years ago/Diet soda or fruit drink with saccharine

Ten years ago/A drink sweetened with Equal

Ten years ago/A drink sweetened with Sweet N Low

Ten years ago/A dessert made with Equal

Ten years ago/A dessert made with Sweet N Low

Twenty years ago/Diet soda with saccharine (like Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi)

Twenty years ago/A drink sweetened with Sweet N Low

Twenty years ago/A dessert made with Sweet N Low

In the past year, did you use any natural hormones that you can get without a doctor's prescription? These are usually made from plants and often obtained from health food stores or by mail order. They may be in the form of a pill, vaginal cream or suppository, or skin cream.

Wild yam or progesterone creams

Progesterone suppositories

DHEA (dehydroepiandosterone pills)

Phytoestrogen pills (soy or flax)

Phytoestrogen creams (soy or flax)

Phytoestrogen containing foods (tofu, soybeans)

In the past year, did you use female hormones (ESTROGEN or PROGESTERONE) that were prescribed by a doctor? (This may have been in the form of a pill, skin patch, shot, or vaginal cream or suppository.)

In the past year, did you use female hormone PILLS prescribed by a doctor which contained both ESTROGEN and progestin (PROGESTERONE) COMBINED in the same pill or package (for example, Prempro, Premphase)? (Do not include use of two separate estrogen and progestin pills used at the same time.)

In the past year, how many months did you use COMBINED female hormone PILLS which contained both ESTROGEN and PROGESTIN?

In the past year, did you use female hormone PILLS prescribed by a doctor which contained both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE COMBINED in the same pill (for example, Estratest)?

In the past year, how many months did you use COMBINED female hormone PILLS which contained both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE?

In the past year, what type of COMBINED ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE pill did you use the longest?

In the past year, did you use ESTROGEN PILLS which were prescribed by a doctor (for example, Premarin, Estrace, Ogen)? (Do not include the combined pill of estrogen progestin or the combined pill of estrogen and testosterone.)

In the past year, how many months did you use ESTROGEN PILLS?

In the past year, when you were using ESTROGEN pills, what was the average number of days each month you used the pills?

In the past year, what type of ESTROGEN pills did you use the longest?

What dose did you usually take each day? (Mark one. If you regularly take more than one dose, mark the lowest dose.)

In the past year, did you take shots containing the hormone ESTROGEN?

In the past year, how many months did you take the shots? (Count each shot as one month.)

In the past year, did you use a vaginal cream or suppository containing ESTROGEN which was prescribed by a doctor?

In the past year, how many months did you use the vaginal cream or suppository?

In the past year, did you use a SKIN PATCH containing the hormone ESTROGEN with or without PROGESTOERONE (for example, Estraderm, Climara, Vivelle)?

In the past year, how many months did you use the patch?

In the past year, what type of patch did you use the longest?

What does of ESTROGEN was in the skin patch you usually used?

What was the average number of times each week that you changed your skin patch?

In the past year, did you use the female hormone PILL called PROGESTERONE or progestin (for example, Provera, Cycrin, Aman, Megace)? (Do not included the combined pill of estrogen and progestin.)

In the past year, how many months did you use PROGESTERONE or progestin pills?

In the past year, when you were using PROGESTERONE or progestin pills, what was the average number of days each month you used the pills?

In the past year, what type of PROGESTERONE or progestin pills did you use the longest?

What dose did you usually take each day? (Mark one. If you regularly take more than one dose, mark the lowest dose).

Macular degeneration of the retina

Emphysema or chronic bronchitis

Heart failure or congestive heart failure

Angina (chest pains from the heart)

Kidney or bladder stones (renal or urinary calculi)

Dialysis for kidney or renal failure

Pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas)

Liver disease (chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or yellow jaundice)

Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, motor neuron disease, or Lou Gehrig's disease)

What is your current marital status? (Mark the one that best describes you.)

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 5.1, 5.3, and 5.5. Total number of episodes per week of recreational physical activity (includes walking, mild, moderate and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6. Episodes per week of recreational physical activity of >=20 minutes duration (includes walking, mild, moderate and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4.2, 5.1, and 5.3. Episodes per week of moderate and strenuous recreational physical activity (includes walking fairly fast or very fast, moderate physical activity and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. Episodes per week of moderate and strenuous recreational physical activity of >=20 minutes duration (includes walking fairly fast or very fast, moderate physical activity and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4. Categorical variable of episodes per week of moderate and strenuous recreational physical activity of >= 20 minutes duration (includes walking fairly fast or very fast, moderate physical activity and strenuous physical activity). Computed from XLMSEPI and TEPIWK.

Computed from Form 144, question 5.1. Episodes per week of strenuous recreational physical activity.

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6. Total minutes per week of recreational physical activity (includes walking, mild, moderate and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.3. Minutes per week of moderate and strenuous recreational physical activity (includes walking fairly fast or very fast, moderate physical activity and strenuous physical activity).

Computed from Form 144, questions 5.1 and 5.2. Minutes per week of strenuous recreational physical activity.

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6. Total MET-hours per week. Expenditure of energy from recreational physical activity (includes walking, mild, moderate and strenuous physical activity in kcal/week/kg).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, and 4.2. Expenditure of energy from physical activity from walking in kcal/week/kg (MET-hours per week).

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1 and 4.2. Energy expenditure from average walking (2-3 mph) in MET-hours per week. If question 6.2 (speed of walking) was marked as "don't know" or was missing, the speed was assumed to be 2-3 mph.

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1 and 4.2. Energy expenditure form walking fairly fast (3-4 mph) in MET-hours per week.

Computed from Form 144, questions 4, 4.1, and 4.2. Energy expenditure from walking very fast (> 4 mph) in MET-hours per week.

Computed from Form 144, questions 5.1 and 5.2. Energy expenditure from strenuous or very hard exercise (for example, aerobics, aerobic dancing, jogging, tennis, swimming laps) in MET-hours per week.

Computed from Form 144, questions 5.3 and 5.4. Energy expenditure from moderate exercise (for example, biking outdoors, using an exercise machine, calisthenics, easy swimming, popular or folk dancing) in MET-hours per week.

Computed from Form 144, questions 5.5 and 5.6. Energy expenditure from mild exercise (for example, slow dancing, bowling, golf) in MET-hours per week.

Computed from Form 144 questions 16, 17, 18, 19 and 22.

Computed from Form 144 questions 16, 17, 22, 22.2 and 23.

Computed from variables "Progesterone use last year" and "Estrogen use last year".