Background: Adiposity, measured by body mass index, is implicated in carcinogenesis.
While adult weight gain has diverse advantages over body mass index in measuring …

Background Overweight and obese persons are at risk of a number of medical conditions
which can lead to further morbidity and mortality. The primary objective of this study is to …

The prevalence of obesity is rapidly increasing globally. Epidemiological studies have
associated obesity with a range of cancer types, although the mechanisms by which obesity …

Little is known regarding the early aspects of ovarian carcinogenesis. As a consequence,
the identification of women at risk for the disease is based primarily on clinical grounds, with …

Obesity is a major influence on the development and course of cardiovascular diseases and
affects physical and social functioning and quality of life. The importance of effective …

The prevalence of obesity has markedly increased over the past two decades, especially in
the industrialized countries. While the impact of excess body weight on the development of …

Ovarian cancer represents the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the
world, and causes more deaths per year than any other cancer of the female reproductive …

Obesity is a risk factor for several hormone-related cancers but evidence for an effect on risk
of epithelial ovarian cancer remains inconclusive. Many studies evaluating this association …

The effect of major epidemiologic risk factors for ovarian cancer has been reviewed in the
light of several hormonal hypotheses, including the gonadotropin, androgens, progesterone …

Objective: This study compared the effect of alternating shift work and day work on weight
gain in Japanese male workers. Methods and Procedures: A longitudinal cohort study was …