Authors' reply to editorial linked to their umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies on type 2 diabetes and cancer

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tsilidis, Konstantinos K ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SCREENING; COMPLICATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; NEOPLASMS;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84922949870     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h711     Document Type: Letter

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