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Scientists at University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine publish new data on life sciences
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 11th, 2007
Researchers detail in 'Childhood diet and insulin-like growth factors in adulthood: 65-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr Cohort,' new data in life sciences. "High levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) are associated with an increased cancer risk and reduce risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease. We investigated associations of diet in childhood, in particular energy intake, with the IGF system in adulthood to determine if IGF-I -disease associations could be linked to early nutrition," scientists in Bristol, the United Kingdom report.
"Retrospective cohort study. Sixteen survey centres in U.K. and Scotland that originally participated in the Carnegie (Boyd...
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