Traditional home-brewed beer consumption and iron status in patients with esophageal cancer and healthy control subjects from Transkei, South Africa

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-73

  Matsha, Tandi ^a   Brink, Lucy ^a   Van Rensburg, Susan ^a   Hon, Dinie ^a   Lombard, Carl ^b   Erasmus, Rajiv ^a,c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IRON INTAKE; IRON OVERLOAD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SOUTH AFRICA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33846628205     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc5601_9     Document Type: Article

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