Intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids and distal large bowel cancer risk in whites and African Americans

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 969-979

  Kim, Sangmi ^a   Sandler, Dale P ^a   Galanko, Joseph ^b   Martin, Christopher ^b   Sandler, Robert S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

colorectal neoplasms; fatty acids omega 3; fatty acids unsaturated; intestine large

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; FATTY ACID; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH RISK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECTUM CARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIET; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77952304753     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq032     Document Type: Article

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