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Obesity and cancer risk: a danish record-linkage study
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Overall, the incidence of cancer was increased by 16% in the cohort and the results were essentially unchanged by restriction to the subcohort of 8207 persons in whom obesity was the primary discharge diagnosis, and were also similar in the first year of follow-up after hospital discharge.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Cancer.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 432 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer & Cohort.read more
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Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults.
TL;DR: Current patterns of overweight and obesity in the United States could account for 14 percent of all deaths from cancer in men and 20 percent of those in women, and increased body weight was associated with increased death rates for all cancers combined and for cancers at multiple specific sites.
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Epidemiology and Molecular Carcinogenesis
TL;DR: A detailed understanding of epidemiologic factors and molecular mechanisms associated with HCC ultimately could improve current concepts for screening and treatment of this disease.
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Overweight, obesity and cancer: epidemiological evidence and proposed mechanisms
Eugenia E. Calle,Rudolf Kaaks +1 more
TL;DR: Gaining a better understanding of the relationship between obesity and cancer can provide new insight into mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis.
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Cancer incidence and mortality in relation to body mass index in the Million Women Study: cohort study.
TL;DR: Increasing body mass index is associated with a significant increase in the risk of cancer for 10 out of 17 specific types examined, and for colorectal cancer, malignant melanoma, breast cancer, and endometrial cancer, the effect ofBody mass index on risk differed significantly according to menopausal status.
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Progression of NAFLD to diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease or cirrhosis.
TL;DR: The evidence that suggests NAFLD is a multisystem disease and the factors that might determine interindividual variation in the development and progression of its major hepatic and extrahepatic manifestations are reviewed.
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Statistical Methods in Cancer Research
TL;DR: Statistical methods in cancer research as mentioned in this paper, Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Statistical methods in Cancer research, Statistical methods for cancer research, کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزش
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Statistical methods in cancer research. Volume II--The design and analysis of cohort studies.
N. E. Breslow,N. E. Day +1 more
TL;DR: What do you do to start reading statistical methods in cancer research vol ii the design and analysis of cohort studies?
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A prospective study of obesity and risk of coronary heart disease in women.
JoAnn E. Manson,Graham A. Colditz,Meir J. Stampfer,Walter C. Willett,Bernard Rosner,Richard R. Monson,Frank E. Speizer,Charles H. Hennekens +7 more
TL;DR: Even mild-to-moderate overweight increased the risk of coronary disease in middle-aged women, and the importance of obesity as a determinant of coronary heart disease in women is emphasized.
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Variations in mortality by weight among 750,000 men and women.
Edward A. Lew,Lawrence Garfinkel +1 more
TL;DR: The mortality findings of this study match closely those of the Build and Blood Pressure Study 1959 based on the experience of 412 million insured persons.
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