Waist circumference, waist:hip ratio, and risk of breast cancer in the Nurses' Health Study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1316-1324

  Huang, Zhiping ^a,b   Willett, Walter C ^a,c   Colditz, Graham A ^a,c,d   Hunter, David J ^a,c,d   Manson, Joann E ^a,c   Rosner, Bernard ^a,c   Speizer, Frank E ^a,c   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Body constitution; Breast neoplasms; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; HORMONE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0033573326     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009963     Document Type: Article

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