Body mass index and cancer: Results from the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Cohort

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 458-466

  Lukanova, Annekatrin ^a,b   Björ, Ove ^b   Kaaks, Rudolf ^c   Lenner, Per ^b   Lindahl, Bernt ^b   Hallmans, Göran ^b   Stattin, Pär ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cancer risk; Northern Sweden Health and Disease Cohort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIGRATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBESITY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 28844472410     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21354     Document Type: Article

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