ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2009
Energy balance, early life body size, and plasma prolactin levels in postmenopausal women.
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- Mammographic density change with 1 year of aerobic exercise among postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2010Trial
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- Adiposity Change Over the Life Course and Mammographic Breast Density in Postmenopausal Women.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2020Article
- Weight and weight changes in early adulthood and later breast cancer risk.International journal of cancer · 2017Article
- Bioactive prolactin levels and risk of breast cancer: a nested case-control study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2015Article
- The association of reproductive and lifestyle factors with a score of multiple endogenous hormones.Hormones & cancer · 2014Article
- Breast cancer risk accumulation starts early: prevention must also.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2014Review
- Body size in early life and adult levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3.American journal of epidemiology · 2011Article
- Prospective study of growth and development in older girls and risk of benign breast disease in young women.Cancer · 2011Article
- Prolactin serum levels and breast cancer: relationships with risk factors and tumour characteristics among pre- and postmenopausal women in a population-based case-control study from Poland.British journal of cancer · 2010Article
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objectiveWe examined the relationships of prolactin with birth weight; childhood, adolescent and adult body size measures; adult physical activity and inactivity; and alcohol consumption among 1,423 postmenopausal women from the Nurses' Health Study.
methodsInformation on exposures was collected on biennial questionnaires beginning in 1976. Blood was collected from 32,826 participants in 1990; prolactin was measured in a subset of women who were controls for a nested breast cancer case-control study. Generalized linear models were adjusted for assay batch, medication use at blood draw, and other potential predictors of prolactin.
resultsNo associations were observed for adult factors (p-trend >or= 0.17), body mass index at age 18, birth weight, or height (p-trend >or= 0.27). There was an inverse association between body size at ages 5 (p-trend = 0.03) and 10 (p-trend = 0.05) and prolactin, with levels 9% lower among women with the heaviest versus leanest average childhood body size. This association was more pronounced among women with a birth weight <7 pounds (p-trend = 0.004; p-interaction between birth weight and childhood body size = 0.01).
conclusionsOur results suggest that few adult lifestyle risk factors are associated with prolactin levels in postmenopausal women; however, childhood body size may be a predictor of levels later in life.
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