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Mann & Truswell: Essentials of Human Nutrition 3e

Forest plot

To accompany Chapter 21, Nutrition and Cancer

Box 21.1 on page 319 of the book discusses a forest plot showing the results of a meta-analysis of observational studies of the relationship between waist circumference and postmenopausal breast cancer. Please find the forest plot available to view here as a PDF [366KB].

The forest plot is published as Figure 2 in a paper by Harvie M, Hooper L, Howell AH, Central obesity and breast cancer risk: a systematic review in the journal Obesity Reviews 4: pp157-173, 2003. With permission from Blackwell Publishing.