Journal article
The association of education with body mass index and waist circumference in the EPIC-PANACEA study.
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BACKGROUND: To examine the association of education with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). METHOD: This study included 141,230 male and 336,637 female EPIC-participants, who were recruited between 1992 and 2000. Education, which was assessed by questionnaire, was classified into four categories; BMI and WC, measured by trained personnel in most participating centers, were modeled as continuous depende...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
British Heart Foundation
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Food Standards Agency
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Wellcome Trust
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Hellenic Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity
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Italian Association for Research on Cancer
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC public health Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 169
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
- Source identifiers:
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139032
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:139032
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Hermann et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Hermann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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