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Chewing Betel Quid and the Risk of Metabolic Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, and All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Betel nut (Areca nut) is the fruit of the Areca catechu tree. Approximately 700 million individuals regularly chew betel nut (or betel quid) worldwide and it is a known risk factor for oral cancer and esophageal cancer. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the influence of chewing bete...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Tomohide, Hara, Kazuo, Kadowaki, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23940623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070679