Alcohol consumption as a major risk factor for the rise in liver cancer mortality rates in Japanese men

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 30-34

  Makimoto, Kiyoko ^a   Higuchi, Susumu ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Japanese men; Liver cancer; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANCER; GENDER DISPARITY; HEPATITIS; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIA; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CANCER--MEN; CAUSES OF DEATH--MEN; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN ASIA; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS--MEN; MEN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032975306     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.1.30     Document Type: Article

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