Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study.

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Published in Lancet Oncol on November 26, 2014

Authors

Melina Arnold1, Nirmala Pandeya2, Graham Byrnes3, Prof Andrew G Renehan4, Gretchen A Stevens5, Prof Majid Ezzati6,7, Jacques Ferlay1, J Jaime Miranda8, Isabelle Romieu9, Rajesh Dikshit10, David Forman1, Isabelle Soerjomataram1

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
2: School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
3: Biostatistics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
4: Faculty Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom.
5: Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
6: MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
7: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
8: CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, and School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
9: Nutrition and Metabolism Section/Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
10: Department of Epidemiology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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