Anthropometric measures, medical history and risk of basal cell carcinoma in an Italian case-control study

Dermatology

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-276

  Pelucchi, Claudio ^a,b   Naldi, Luigi ^a   Di Landro, Anna ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^b  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Body mass index; Case control studies; Epidemiology; Medical history; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASTHMA; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40949156742     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113151     Document Type: Article

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