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Overweight, obesity, and colorectal cancer screening: Disparity between men and women

BACKGROUND: To estimate the association between body-mass index (BMI: kg/m(2)) and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among US adults aged ≥ 50 years. METHODS: Population-based data from the 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. Adults (N = 84,284) aged ≥ 50 years were classified by BMI as...

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Autores principales: Heo, Moonseong, Allison, David B, Fontaine, Kevin R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC529449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15533259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-4-53