Body mass index and cancer screening in older American Indian and Alaska Native men

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-108

  Muus, Kyle J ^a,c   Baker Demaray, Twyla ^a   McDonald, Leander R ^a   Ludtke, Richard L ^a   Allery, Alan J ^a   Bogart, T Andy ^b   Goldberg, Jack ^b   Ramsey, Scott D ^b   Buchwald, Dedra S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALASKA; BODY MASS INDEX; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCULT BLOOD; OVERWEIGHT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 58049162703     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2009.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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