Body Fat and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: A Longitudinal Study

Body Fat and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: A Longitudinal Study

Associations between anthropometric indices of obesity and breast cancer risk may fail to capture the true relationship between excess body fat and risk. We used dual-energy-X-ray-absorptiometry- (DXA-) derived measures of body fat obtained in the Women's Health Initiative to examine the associ...

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Main Authors: Rohan, Thomas E., Heo, Moonseong, Choi, Lydia, Datta, Mridul, Freudenheim, Jo L., Kamensky, Victor, Ochs-Balcom, Heather M., Qi, Lihong, Thomson, Cynthia A., Vitolins, Mara Z., Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia, Kabat, Geoffrey C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649193/

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