Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. Adults

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1625-1638

  Calle, Eugenia E ^a   Rodriguez, Carmen ^b   Walker Thurmond, Kimberly ^b   Thun, Michael J ^b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBESITY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037464510     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021423     Document Type: Article

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