Mortality from different causes associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and nitrites in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: Population based cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 357, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Etemadi, Arash ^a   Sinha, Rashmi ^a   Ward, Mary H ^a   Graubard, Barry I ^a   Inoue Choi, Maki ^a   Dawsey, Sanford M ^a   Abnet, Christian C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; HEME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MORTALITY RATE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSED MEAT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RED MEAT; UNITED STATES; WHITE MEAT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DIET; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK;

AGED; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEME; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NITRATES; NITRITES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019256144     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j1957     Document Type: Article

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