Overall and Central Obesity and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Pooled Analysis.
Yu, Danxia; Zheng, Wei; Johansson, Mattias; Lan, Qing; Park, Yikyung; White, Emily; Matthews, Charles E; Sawada, Norie; Gao, Yu-Tang; Robien, Kim; Sinha, Rashmi; Langhammer, Arnulf; Kaaks, Rudolf; Giovannucci, Edward L; Liao, Linda M; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Lazovich, DeAnn; Peters, Ulrike; Zhang, Xuehong; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Willett, Walter C; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Takata, Yumie; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A; Blot, William; Shu, Xiao-Ou
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2018-03-06
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Overall and Central Obesity and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Pooled Analysis.
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2018; advance online publication (ahead of print)
Abstract
The obesity-lung cancer association remains controversial. Concerns over confounding by smoking and reverse causation persist. The influence of obesity type and effect modifications by race/ethnicity and tumor histology are largely unexplored.