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Breast Cancer
Researchers at State University of New York publish new data on breast cancer
April 16th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "To evaluate the relationship between body size and incident breast cancer in an African-origin Caribbean population. This investigation is based on 222 incident breast cancer cases and 454 controls from the Barbados National Cancer Study (BNCS) in whom body size variables that included height, weight, body-mass index (BMI), waist and hip circumferences (WC, HC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) were compared." "Multivariate-adjusted logistic regression analyses were performed and the findings are presented as odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Although 33% of cases and 39% of controls were obese (BMI a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-16)
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