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Long-term weight change and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC)

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Cancer, August 2005
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Title
Long-term weight change and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC)
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British Journal of Cancer, August 2005
DOI 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602763
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Authors

P H Lahmann, M Schulz, K Hoffmann, H Boeing, A Tjønneland, A Olsen, K Overvad, T J Key, N E Allen, K-T Khaw, S Bingham, G Berglund, E Wirfält, F Berrino, V Krogh, A Trichopoulou, P Lagiou, D Trichopoulos, R Kaaks, E Riboli

Abstract

We examined prospectively the association between weight change during adulthood and breast cancer risk, using data on 1358 incident cases that developed during 5.8 years of follow-up among 40,429 premenopausal and 57,923 postmenopausal women from six European countries, taking part in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition study. Multivariate Cox regression models were used to calculate hazard ratios according to weight change (kg), defined as the weight difference between age at enrollment and age 20 adjusted for other risk factors. Changes in weight were not associated with premenopausal breast cancer risk. In postmenopausal women, weight gain was positively associated with breast cancer risk only among noncurrent hormone replacement therapy (HRT) users (P-trend < or = 0.0002). Compared to women with a stable weight (+/-2 kg), the relative risk for women who gained 15-20 kg was 1.50 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.06-2.13). The pooled RR per weight gain increment of 5 kg was 1.08 (95% CI 1.04-1.12). Weight gain was not associated with breast cancer risk in current HRT users, although, overall, these women experienced a much higher risk of breast cancer compared with nonusers. Our findings suggest that large adult weight gain was a significant predictor of breast cancer in postmenopausal women not taking exogenous hormones.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 5%
Spain 2 2%
France 1 1%
Belgium 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Nigeria 1 1%
Unknown 75 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 16%
Student > Master 12 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Professor 7 8%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 13 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 42 49%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 7%
Psychology 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 14 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2019.
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#2,675,174
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#1,619
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#4,946
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Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Cancer
#6
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