Height, body weight, and risk of prostate cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 557-563

  Giovannucci, Edward ^a,b   Rimm, Eric B ^a,b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,b   Colditz, Graham A ^a,b   Willett, Walter C ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 16944362998     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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