Intakes of dietary iron and heme-iron and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP diet and health study

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 613-614

  Huang, Xi ^a   Katz, Stuart ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; IRON;

BREAST CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; IRON INTAKE; LETTER; POSTMENOPAUSE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIET; FEMALE; HEME; HUMANS; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960863572     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.111.017947     Document Type: Letter

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