Leanness and lung cancer risk: Fact or artifact?

Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 268-276

  Henley, S Jane ^a   Flanders, W Dana ^a,b   Manatunga, Amita ^b   Thun, Michael J ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; THINNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036228601     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200205000-00006     Document Type: Article

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