B vitamin intakes and incidence of colorectal cancer: Results from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study cohort

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 332-343

  Zschäbitz, Stefanie ^b   Cheng, Ting Yuan David ^a,e   Neuhouser, Marian L ^a,e   Zheng, Yingye ^a   Ray, Roberta M ^a   Miller, Joshua W ^c   Song, Xiaoling ^a   Maneval, David R ^d   Beresford, Shirley A A ^a,e   Lane, Dorothy ^f   Shikany, James M ^g   Ulrich, Cornelia M ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE; RIBOFLAVIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DESCENDING COLON; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RECTUM; RISK REDUCTION; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBOFLAVIN; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN B 6; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN B DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84873328149     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.034736     Document Type: Article

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