Obesity: Focus on all-cause mortality and cancer

Maturitas

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-116

  Teucher, Birgit ^a   Rohrmann, Sabine ^a   Kaaks, Rudolf ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Cancer; Mortality; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 74649085952     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2009.11.018     Document Type: Review

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