Patterns of regular use of mammography - Body weight and ethnicity: The Multiethnic Cohort

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 162-169

  Edwards, Quannetta T ^a,b,c   Li, Arthur ^c,d   Pike, Malcolm C ^c   Kolonel, Laurence ^e   Henderson, Brian E ^c   McKean Cowdin, Roberta ^c  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b City of Hope ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Health behavior; Mammography; Multiethnic cohort (MEC); Overweight obesity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HAWAII; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77950602685     PISSN: 10412972     EISSN: 17457599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2009.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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