Educational Differences in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer - Quantifying Indirect Effects through Health Behaviors, Body Mass Index and Reproductive Patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Hvidtfeldt, Ulla Arthur ^a   Lange, Theis ^a   Andersen, Ingelise ^a   Diderichsen, Finn ^a   Keiding, Niels ^a   Prescott, Eva ^d   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^c   Tjønneland, Anne ^b   Rod, Naja Hulvej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^c Capital Region   (Denmark)

^d BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PARITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOSTATISTICS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84886259009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078690     Document Type: Article

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