What proportion of cancer is due to obesity?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1290, 2009, Pages 9-13

  Blakely, Tony ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a   Shaw, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BODY MASS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEW ZEALAND; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO;

BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 64049113617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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