Body-mass index and cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration: Pooled analyses of 424 519 participants

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 741-752

  Parr, Christine L ^a,d   Batty, G David ^b,d   Lam, Tai Hing ^c   Barzi, Federica ^d   Fang, Xianghua ^e   Ho, Suzanne C ^f   Jee, Sun Ha ^g   Ansary Moghaddam, Alireza ^d,h   Jamrozik, Konrad ⁱ   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^j   Woodward, Mark ^d,k   Huxley, Rachel R ^d,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^h ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^j SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 77955267574     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(10)70141-8     Document Type: Article

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