Health Risk Behaviors and Prostate Specific Antigen Awareness Among Men in California

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 658-662

  Ahmed, Firas S ^a,b   Borrell, Luisa N ^b,c   Spencer, Benjamin A ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

exercise; obesity; prostate; prostate specific antigen; smoking

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SAMPLING; SMOKING; TELEPHONE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING;

EID: 46449105987     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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