Fruit and vegetable consumption and cancer mortality in the Caerphilly Study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 673-677

  Hertog, Michaël G L ^a   Bueno de Mesquita, H Bas ^a   Fehily, Ann M ^b   Sweetnam, Peter M ^c   Elwood, Peter C ^c   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b HJ Heinz Company Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETABLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIET; DIETARY FIBER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; VEGETABLES; WALES;

EID: 0029787490     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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