Community- and individual-level socioeconomic status and breast cancer Risk: Multilevel modeling on cape cod, Massachusetts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1125-1129

  Thomas, Webster F ^a   Hoffman, Kate ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Vieira, Verónica ^a   Aschengrau, Ann ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Latency; Multilevel modeling; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; BREAST TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 51249116969     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10818     Document Type: Article

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