Breast cancer risk after caloric restriction during the 1944-1945 Dutch famine

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 539-546

  Elias, Sjoerd G ^a   Peeters, Petra H M ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   van Noord, Paulus A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; BREAST TUMOR; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STARVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STARVATION;

EID: 1842844441     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djh087     Document Type: Article

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