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From: Body size in early life and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer

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Relative risk of postmenopausal breast cancer by categories of early life body size and BMI at around age 60 years. [1] Relative risks associated with categories of self-reported body size at age 10 and clothes size at age 20 are plotted against mean BMI measures at relevant ages in a subsample of participants who were also included in the National Survey of Health and Development cohort. [2] Relative risks were stratified by year of birth, year at baseline, and region, and adjusted for social deprivation, education, adult height, first-degree family history of breast cancer, smoking, exercise, alcohol consumption, age at menarche, parity and age at first birth, use of oral contraceptives, and age at menopause. Confidence intervals are represented as group-specific confidence intervals (g-s CIs, see Methods); analyses were restricted to never users of menopausal hormone therapy.

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