A prospective cohort study of obesity and risk of esophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health study

OBJECTIVE: Incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has increased rapidly over the past forty years and accumulating evidence suggests that obesity, as measured by body mass index (BMI), is a major risk factor. However, it remains unclear whether abdominal obesity is associated with esophageal a...

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Main Authors: O’Doherty, Mark G., Freedman, Neal D., Hollenbeck, Albert R., Schatzkin, Arthur, Abnet, Christian C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504700/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174193
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2011-300551
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