Household budget survey nutritional data in relation to mortality from coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer and female breast cancer in European countries

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 328-332

  Lagiou, P ^a   Trichopoulou, A ^a   Henderickx, H K ^b   Kelleher, C ^c   Leonhauser, I U ^c   Moreiras, O ^c   Nelson, M ^c   Schmitt, A ^c   Sekula, W ^c   Trygg, K ^c   Zajkas, G ^c  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b National Institute of Statistics   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Diet; Ecological correlation; Household Budget Surveys; Mortality; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BUDGET; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA BASE; DIET; ECOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032913366     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600729     Document Type: Article

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