Whole Grain Intake and Incident Endometrial Cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 180-186

  Kasum, Christine M ^a   Nicodemus, Kristin ^a   Harnack, Lisa J ^a   Jacobs Jr , David R ^a   Folsom, Aaron R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CEREALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENERGY INTAKE; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; VITAMINS;

EID: 0035237705     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914nc392_4     Document Type: Article

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