Obesity and cancer

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 73-86

  Abu Abid, Subhi ^a,b   Szold, Amir ^a   Klausner, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

And prostate; Cancers of the breast; Central adiposity; Colon; Endometrium; Estrogen; Obesity; Prostate; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY REGIONS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; COLON CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FAT INTAKE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKINFOLD; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND HEALING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041307162     PISSN: 00257850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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