Maternal height and breast cancer risk: results from a study nested within the EPIC-Greece cohort

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 457-463

  Katsoulis, Michail ^a,b   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,c   Trichopoulou, Antonia ^a   Lagiou, Pagona ^a,d,e  

^a HELLENIC HEALTH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SMOKING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REFERENCE VALUE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; GREECE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85017499076     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-017-0245-z     Document Type: Letter

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