Journal article
Body size, body composition and endometrial cancer risk among postmenopausal women in UK Biobank
- Abstract:
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Previous studies on the association of adiposity with endometrial cancer risk have mostly used body mass index (BMI) as the main exposure of interest. Whether more precise measures of body fat, such as body fat percentage and fat mass estimated by bioimpedance analyses, are better indicators of risk than BMI is unknown. The role of central adiposity and fat-free mass in endometrial cancer development remains unclear. We used Cox regression models to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and correspondi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Cancer Journal website
- Volume:
- 147
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 2405-2415
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1097-0215
- ISSN:
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0020-7136
- Pmid:
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32338769
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1103674
- Local pid:
- pubs:1103674
- Deposit date:
- 2021-06-02
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- Copyright holder:
- W Omiyale et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Cancer published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of UICC This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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