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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Short Communication
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
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spelling pubmed-23606342009-09-10 Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women Engeland, A Tretli, S Akslen, L A Bjørge, T Br J Cancer Short Communication 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 height in both sexes. Nature Publishing Group 2006-08-07 2006-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2360634/ /pubmed/16832414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603249 Text en Copyright © 2006 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women
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url 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
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