Nitrate from drinking water and diet and bladder cancer among postmenopausal women in Iowa

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1751-1758

  Jones, Rena R ^a   Weyer, Peter J ^b   Dellavalle, Curt T ^a   Inoue Choi, Maki ^a,c   Anderson, Kristin E ^d,e   Cantor, Kenneth P ^a   Krasner, Stuart ^f   Robien, Kim ^g   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a   Silverman, Debra T ^a   Ward, Mary H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; TRIHALOMETHANE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INGESTION; IOWA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGED; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITRATES; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84994257634     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP191     Document Type: Article

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