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Breast Cancer Risk Factor
Risk of breast cancer was not found to be associated with dietary patterns
January 19th, 2006
The risk of breast cancer was not found to be associated with dietary patterns. According to scientists in the United States, "Ecologic, migrant, and secular trend studies suggest an association between the Western diet and the risk of breast cancer. We examined data from the Nurses Health Study II to evaluate the association between major dietary patterns and the risk of breast cancer among pre-menopausal women." C.A. Adebamowo and colleagues described their study: "We derived 'Western' and 'prudent' dietary patterns from the responses of 90,638 premenopausal women, aged 26 to 46 years at baseline in 1991, who completed validated food frequency...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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