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Breast Cancer
Adiposity is associated with both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer risk
February 9th, 2006
Adiposity is associated with both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer risk. Researchers in France conducted a study "to investigate the association between various anthropometric characteristics and breast cancer." This was a "longitudinal prospective cohort study." Follow-up was done "between 1995 and 2000," declared B. Tehard and F. Clavel-Chapelon. The study cohort consisted of "69,116 women (age: 45-70 years; mean follow-up: 3.6 years), 275 premenopausal and 860 postmenopausal incident invasive breast cancers." Study measurements were "self-reported height, weight, breast, thorax, waist and hip circumferences and calculated body mass...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-09)
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