Breast Disease

Adolescent diet may be related to proliferative benign breast disease

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 26th, 2004

Vegetable fat, vitamin E, and fiber intakes during adolescence were inversely associated with risk of proliferative benign breast disease (BBD) in the population studied, researchers say.

According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, "Studies of adult diet and risk of breast cancer have yielded mainly null results, but this does not rule out a possible impact of adolescent diet.

"This study examined associations between components of adolescent diet and risk of proliferative BBD, a marker for breast cancer. The study population consisted of 29,494 women in the Nurses' Health Study II who...

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