Obesity and mortality after breast cancer by Race/Ethnicity: The california breast cancer survivorship consortium

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-111

  Kwan, Marilyn L ^a   John, Esther M ^b,c,d   Caan, Bette J ^a   Lee, Valerie S ^a   Bernstein, Leslie ^e   Cheng, Iona ^b   Gomez, Scarlett Lin ^b,c,d   Henderson, Brian E ^f,g   Keegan, Theresa H M ^b,c,d   Kurian, Allison W ^c,d   Lu, Yani ^e   Monroe, Kristine R ^f,g   Roh, Janise M ^a   Shariff Marco, Salma ^b   Sposto, Richard ^f,g   Vigen, Cheryl ^h   Wu, Anna H ^f,g  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adiposity; body mass index; breast cancer; mortality; obesity; race ethnicity; survival; waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CANCER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; OBESITY; SURVIVAL; WOMENS HEALTH;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; REGISTER; TREND STUDY; UNDERWEIGHT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ADIPOSITY; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST CANCER; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RACE/ETHNICITY; SURVIVAL; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THINNESS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891364632     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt233     Document Type: Article

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