Interaction of waist/hip ratio and family history on the risk of hormone receptor-defined breast cancer in a prospective study of postmenopausal women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 225-233

  Sellers, Thomas A ^a   Davis, Jenny ^a   Cerhan, James R ^a   Vierkant, Robert A ^a   Olson, Janet E ^a   Pankratz, V Shane ^a   Potter, John D ^b   Folsom, Aaron R ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cohort studies; Hereditary diseases; Obesity; Risk

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

CANCER;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036468519     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/155.3.225     Document Type: Article

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