Tobacco smoke overload and ethnic, state, gender, and temporal cancer mortality disparities in Asian-Americans and Pacific Islander-Americans

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 430-434

  Leistikow, Bruce N ^a   Chen, Moon ^a   Tsodikov, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; California; Ethnicity; Gender; Hawaii; Illinois; New Jersey; New York; Sex characteristics; Smoking; State governments; Time factors

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744925132     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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