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Endocrinology
Researchers' findings advance endocrinology research
April 14th, 2005
Investigators in the United States, Brazil and Sweden have published new endocrinology data. Study 1: Study results show that alcohol decreases serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in premenopausal women and that IGF-I, regardless of alcohol presence, significantly increases over the menstrual cycle. The findings were reported by J.A. Lavigne and colleagues at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. "Alcohol ingestion and insulin-like growth factor-I have been associated with increased breast cancer risk, the latter primarily in premenopausal women. We investigated whether alcohol ingestion altered IGF-I or its major binding protein (BP), IGFBP-3,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)
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