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Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women

We investigated relations between measured body mass index (BMI) and stature and thyroid cancer (3046 cases) in a large Norwegian cohort of more than two million individuals. The risk of thyroid cancer, especially of the papillary and follicular types, increased moderately with increasing BMI and he...

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Autores principales: Engeland, A, Tretli, S, Akslen, L A, Bjørge, T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16832414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603249