Maternal diet and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in young children

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1935-1939

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Ntouvelis, Evangelos ^a   Dessypris, Nick ^a   Terzidis, Agapios ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,b   Moschovi, Maria ^a   Athanassiadou Piperopoulou, Fani ^c   Polychronopoulou, Sophia ^d   Kosmidis, Helen ^e   Kalmanti, Maria ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Aghia Sophia General Children's Hospital   (Greece)

^e P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FRUIT; GREECE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEA FOOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYRUP; VEGETABLE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 23844530830     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0090     Document Type: Article

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