Obesity and risk for brain/CNS tumors, gliomas and meningiomas: A meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Sergentanis, Theodoros N ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b   Perlepe, Christina ^a   Ntanasis Stathopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Tzanninis, Ioannis Georgios ^a   Sergentanis, Ioannis N ^c   Psaltopoulou, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGIOMA; META REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION STUDY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; META ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84947461554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136974     Document Type: Article

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