Abdominal obesity and endometrial cancer in egyptian females with postmenopausal bleeding

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1272-1278

  Zaki, Adel ^a   Gaber, Afaf ^b   Ghanem, Ebrahim ^b   Moemen, Maha ^b   Shehata, Gihan ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; CURETTAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EGYPT; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM THICKNESS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE BLEEDING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINA BLEEDING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84857271945     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2011.615973     Document Type: Article

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