Body size and risk of prostate cancer in Jamaican men

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 909-917

  Jackson, Maria D ^a   Walker, Susan P ^b   Simpson, Candace M ^b   McFarlane Anderson, Norma ^a   Bennett, Franklyn I ^a   Coard, Kathleen C M ^a   Aiken, William D ^a   Tulloch, Trevor ^a   Paul, Tomlin J ^a   Wan, Robert L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c Kingston Public Hospital   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Blacks; Body size; Prostate cancer; Tumor characteristics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMEN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 77955656934     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9520-y     Document Type: Article

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