Body-mass index and cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration: Pooled analyses of 424 519 participants
Background: Excess bodyweight is an established risk factor for several types of cancer, but there are sparse data from Asian populations, where the proportion of overweight and obese individuals is increasing rapidly and adiposity can be substantially greater for the same body-mass index (BMI) comp...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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The Lancet Publishing Group
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42971 |