Body mass index, serum sex hormones, and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with increased breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women. We examined whether this association could be explained by the relationship of body mass index (BMI) with serum sex hormone concentrations. METHODS: We analyzed individual data from eight prospective stu...

Full beskrivning

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsmän:	Key, T, Appleby, P, Reeves, G, Roddam, A, Dorgan, J, Longcope, C, Stanczyk, F, Stephenson, H, Falk, RT, Miller, R, Schatzkin, A, Allen, D, Fentiman, I, Wang, D, Dowsett, M, Thomas, H, Hankinson, SE, Toniolo, P, Akhmedkhanov, A, Koenig, K, Shore, R, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, A, Berrino, F, Muti, P
Materialtyp:	Journal article
Språk:	English
Publicerad:	2003

Body mass index, serum sex hormones, and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

Liknande verk