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. 2006 Aug 7;95(3):366-70.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603249. Epub 2006 Jul 11.

Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women

A Engeland  1 , S Tretli, L A Akslen, T Bjørge
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Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women

A Engeland et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

We investigated relations between measured body mass index (BMI) and stature and thyroid cancer (3046 cases) in a large Norwegian cohort of more than two million individuals. The risk of thyroid cancer, especially of the papillary and follicular types, increased moderately with increasing BMI and height in both sexes.

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Logarithm of the relative risk of thyroid cancer, with 95% CIs, from penalised spline functions with 4 d.f. Adjusted for birth cohort and age at measurements.
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