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Breast Cancer
Report summarizes breast cancer study findings from Kaiser Permanente
May 22nd, 2008
"Physical activity (PA) is one of few modifiable breast cancer risk factors. There have been few studies of the relation between PA and mammographic density, especially in multiethnic populations," scientists in the United States report. "In a cohort of pre- and early perimenopausal women of non-Hispanic white (N = 373), African American (N = 55), Chinese (N = 178), and Japanese (N = 166) ethnicity, we used multivariable linear regression to examine the association between two measures of mammographic density (percent density and area of density) and mutually exclusive components of recent physical activity (sports, household/caregiving and work activity, active...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-22)
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