Smoke load/cancer death rate associations in Korea females, 1985-2004

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-312

  Park, Hye Youn ^a   Leistikow, Bruce ^a   Tsodikov, Alexander ^a   Yoo, Cheol In ^b   Lee, Kiyoung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Cancer; Female; Korea; Mortality; Secondhand smoke; Smoking; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UTERUS CANCER;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 35248863493     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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