Alcohol intake, body weight, and mortality in a multiethnic prospective cohort

Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 654-661

  Maskarinec, Gertraud ^a   Meng, Lixin ^a   Kolonel, Laurence N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Body weight; Cohort; Ethnicity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031697948     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199811000-00016     Document Type: Article

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