Dietary Calcium Consumption and Astrocytic Glioma: The San Francisco Bay Area Adult Glioma Study, 1991-1995

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 196-203

  Tedeschi Blok, Nicole ^a,c   Schwartzbaum, Judith ^b   Lee, Marion ^c   Miike, Rei ^c   Wrensch, Margaret ^c  

^a CHILDREN S ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALORIC INTAKE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEESE; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; DIET; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MILK; PROTEIN INTAKE; RISK; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTOMA; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEESE; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DIET; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MILK; ODDS RATIO; SAN FRANCISCO; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035226251     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914nc392_6     Document Type: Article

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