## Abstract Elevated blood pressure has been proposed to be a risk factor for breast cancer but the results remain controversial. In this study, the incidence of breast cancer among 9,112 postmenopausal, hypertensive women included in the communityβbased hypertension register of the North Karelia p
Adult weight gain and histopathologic characteristics of breast cancer among postmenopausal women
β Scribed by Heather Spencer Feigelson; Alpa V. Patel; Lauren R. Teras; Ted Gansler; Michael J. Thun; Eugenia E. Calle
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 107
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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