Relationship between serum carotenoid levels and cancer death rates in the residents, living in a rural area of hokkaido, Japan

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Ito, Yoshinori ^a   Suzuki, Sadao ^b   Yagyu, Kiyoko ^c   Sasaki, Ryuichiro ^a   Suzuki, Koji ^a   Aoki, Kunio ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

A carotene; Cancer death; Follow up; Lycopene; carotene

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTENOIDS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 37849187401     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.7.1     Document Type: Article

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