Duration of Adulthood Overweight, Obesity, and Cancer Risk in the Women's Health Initiative: A Longitudinal Study from the United States.

Duration of Adulthood Overweight, Obesity, and Cancer Risk in the Women's Health Initiative: A Longitudinal Study from the United States.

<h4>Background</h4>High body mass index (BMI) has become the leading risk factor of disease burden in high-income countries. While recent studies have suggested that the risk of cancer related to obesity is mediated by time, insights into the dose-response relationship and the cumulative...

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Main Authors: Melina Arnold, Luohua Jiang, Marcia L Stefanick, Karen C Johnson, Dorothy S Lane, Erin S LeBlanc, Ross Prentice, Thomas E Rohan, Beverly M Snively, Mara Vitolins, Oleg Zaslavsky, Isabelle Soerjomataram, Hoda Anton-Culver
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002081
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