Body size in different periods of life, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and risk of postmenopausal endometrial cancer (Sweden)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 185-192

  Weiderpass, Elisabete ^a   Persson, Ingemar ^a   Adami, Hans Olov ^a   Magnusson, Cecilia ^a   Lindgren, Anders ^b   Baron, John A ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (Sweden)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus Types 1 and 2; Endometrial neoplasms; Hypertension; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033973417     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008946825313     Document Type: Article

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