Body size and thyroid cancer in two million Norwegian men and women.
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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Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404, N-0403 Oslo, Norway. anders.engeland@isf.uib.no
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D049628:Body Size; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*