Obesity and risk of pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative (United States)

A total of 138 503 women in the Women's Health Initiative in the United States were followed (for an average of 7.7 years) through 12 September 2005 to examine obesity, especially central obesity in relation to pancreatic cancer (n=251). Women in the highest quintile of waist-to-hip ratio had 7...

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Autores principales: Luo, J, Margolis, K L, Adami, H-O, LaCroix, A, Ye, W
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2008
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18628761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604487
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Margolis, K L
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description A total of 138 503 women in the Women's Health Initiative in the United States were followed (for an average of 7.7 years) through 12 September 2005 to examine obesity, especially central obesity in relation to pancreatic cancer (n=251). Women in the highest quintile of waist-to-hip ratio had 70% (95% confidence interval 10–160%) excess risk of pancreatic cancer compared with women in the lowest quintile.
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spelling pubmed-25278012009-09-11 Obesity and risk of pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative (United States) Luo, J Margolis, K L Adami, H-O LaCroix, A Ye, W Br J Cancer Short Communication A total of 138 503 women in the Women's Health Initiative in the United States were followed (for an average of 7.7 years) through 12 September 2005 to examine obesity, especially central obesity in relation to pancreatic cancer (n=251). Women in the highest quintile of waist-to-hip ratio had 70% (95% confidence interval 10–160%) excess risk of pancreatic cancer compared with women in the lowest quintile. Nature Publishing Group 2008-08-05 2008-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2527801/ /pubmed/18628761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604487 Text en Copyright © 2008 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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title_fullStr Obesity and risk of pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative (United States)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18628761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604487
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