Educational differences in postmenopausal breast cancer--quantifying indirect effects through health behaviors, body mass index and reproductive patterns.

Educational differences in postmenopausal breast cancer--quantifying indirect effects through health behaviors, body mass index and reproductive patterns.

Studying mechanisms underlying social inequality in postmenopausal breast cancer is important in order to develop prevention strategies. Standard methods for investigating indirect effects, by comparing crude models to adjusted, are often biased. We applied a new method enabling the decomposition of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt, Theis Lange, Ingelise Andersen, Finn Diderichsen, Niels Keiding, Eva Prescott, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, Naja Hulvej Rod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3812044?pdf=render

Internet

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3812044?pdf=render

Similar Items