Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5·24 million UK adults

BACKGROUND: High body-mass index (BMI) predisposes to several site-specific cancers, but a large-scale systematic and detailed characterisation of patterns of risk across all common cancers adjusted for potential confounders has not previously been undertaken. We aimed to investigate the links betwe...

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Autores principales: Bhaskaran, Krishnan, Douglas, Ian, Forbes, Harriet, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Leon, David A, Smeeth, Liam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lancet Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25129328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60892-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25129328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60892-8

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