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Multicenter Study
. 2008 Dec 2;99(11):1912-5.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604761. Epub 2008 Oct 28.

Tobacco smoking, body mass index, hypertension, and kidney cancer risk in central and eastern Europe

P Brennan  1 , O van der Hel, L E Moore, D Zaridze, V Matveev, I Holcatova, V Janout, H Kollarova, L Foretova, N Szeszenia-Dabrowska, D Mates, N Rothman, P Boffetta, W-H Chow
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Multicenter Study

Tobacco smoking, body mass index, hypertension, and kidney cancer risk in central and eastern Europe

P Brennan et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

In a case-control study of kidney cancer in four central European countries, with 1097 incident cases and 1476 controls, we found an increased risk for self-reported hypertension and for obesity. Additional unknown risk factors are likely to be responsible for the high rates of kidney cancer in this region.

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