Adult height and cancer mortality in Asia: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

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Adult height and cancer mortality in Asia: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

Background: The observation that taller people experience an increased risk of selected cancers is largely restricted to Caucasian cohorts. These associations may plausibly differ in Asian populations. For the first time, we make direct comparison in the same analyses of the associations between hei...

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Main Authors:	Batty, G., Barzi, F., Woodward, M., Jamrozik, K., Woo, J., Kim, H., Ueshima, H., Huxley, Rachel
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2009
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44149

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