Consumption of plant foods and stomach cancer mortality in the seven countries study. Is grain consumption a risk factor?

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-55

  Jansen, Margje C J F ^a,b   Bueno De Mesquita, H Bas ^a   Räsänen, Leena ^c   Fidanza, Flaminio ^d   Menotti, Alessandro ^a,e   Nissinen, Aulikki ^f   Feskens, Edith J M ^a   Kok, Frans J ^b   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

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

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRUIT; GRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANT; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0032838252     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914NC340107     Document Type: Article

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