… We have noted that obesity is a weak risk factor for breast cancer, but upper body fat
distribution greatly increases the risk of breast cancer.33 Women that have upper body fat …

… or by body mass index (weight in kg divided by height in m2), and subsequent breast cancer. …
central to peripheral body fat distribution predicts breast cancer risk independently of the …

… between measures of central fat accumulation and premenopausal breast cancer, but a
negative association with total body fat and premenopausal breast cancer risk, seems counter-…

… breast cancer risk apart from those with familial and/or genetic syndromes. To determine
whether body fat contributes to postmenopausal breast cancer risk in … between body fat levels in …

… risk may fail to capture the true relationship between excess body fat … body fat obtained in
the Women’s Health Initiative to examine the association between body fat and breast cancer …

… between body fat and breast cancer,6,7 whilst others showed that body fat affects breast
cancer … In this study conducted in 71 women with breast cancer, there was a high prevalence of …

… a breast cancer diagnosis and its treatments on body weight … usual care on body composition
in breast cancer survivors. … Seventy-five physically inactive postmenopausal breast cancer …

… body fat distribution has independent effect on breast cancer risk beyond overall obesity.
Analyses were conducted for all women and separately for premenopausal and naturally …

… reflecting different mechanisms of body fat distribution.WHR is … In this paper we evaluated
the role of body fat distribution … prospective cohort study of breast cancer and endogenous sex …

… upper-body fat distribution with the theories of breast cancer … fat distribution (as measured
by WHR) and the risk for breast … the role of body fat distribution in breast cancer development. …