ArticleBritish journal of cancer2004
Birth weight is associated with postmenopausal breast cancer risk in Swedish women.
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- The Association Between High Birth Weight and Long-Term Outcomes-Implications for Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Intrauterine environments and breast cancer risk: meta-analysis and systematic review.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008Pooled it
- Implications of adipocyte dysfunction in pediatric obesity: a narrative review.Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism · 2026Review
- Birth weight and birth length affect future fracture risk differently in men and women.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2024Article
- Can birth weight predict offspring's lung function in adult age? Evidence from two Swedish birth cohorts.Respiratory research · 2022Article
- Early life factors in relation to albuminuria and estimated glomerular filtration rate based on cystatin C and creatinine in adults from a Swedish population-based cohort study.Journal of nephrology · 2022Article
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- Pedican: an online gene resource for pediatric cancers with literature evidence.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Weight gain in pregnancy, maternal age and gestational age in relation to fetal macrosomia.Clinical nutrition research · 2015Article
- Birth weight and subsequent risk of cancer.Cancer epidemiology · 2014Article
- Perinatal characteristics and breast cancer risk in daughters: a Scandinavian population-based study.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2013Article
- Nutrition in early life, and risk of cancer and metabolic disease: alternative endings in an epigenetic tale?The British journal of nutrition · 2009Review
- Birth size and breast cancer risk: re-analysis of individual participant data from 32 studies.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
- Birth weight and breast cancer risk.British journal of cancer · 2006Article
- Conditions in utero and cancer risk.European journal of epidemiology · 2006Review
- The developmental origins of adult disease.Maternal & child nutrition · 2005Review
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Abstract
There is some evidence that birth weight is associated with breast cancer. Whether this association differs between premenopausal and postmenopausal ages is still unclear. The results from this study suggest that higher birth weight is a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer (OR 1.06, CI 1.00-1.12, per 100 g), independent of selected early-life and adult factors.
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