ArticleJournal of oncology2013
Role of obesity in the risk of breast cancer: lessons from anthropometry.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
- Obesity and Risk of Pre- and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer in Africa: A Systematic Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalent diabetes and risk of total, colorectal, prostate and breast cancers in an ageing population: meta-analysis of individual participant data from cohorts of the CHANCES consortium.British journal of cancer · 2021Pooled it
- Breast Cancer Risk From Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Risk Factors among Women in Southeast Asia: A Meta-AnalysisAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2017Pooled it
- BMI, reproductive factors, and breast cancer molecular subtypes: A case-control study and meta-analysis.Journal of epidemiology · 2017Pooled it
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- Exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and risk of early-onset breast cancer.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Article
- Sarcopenic obesity exacerbates gastric cancer prognosis via increased intermuscular and visceral fat accumulation.European journal of medical research · 2025Observational
- The association between adiposity indices and the odds of breast cancer based on findings from a case control study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Central and peripheral adiposity and premenopausal breast cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 440,179 women.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Article
- Burden of postmenopausal breast cancer attributable to excess body weight: comparative study of body mass index and CUN-BAE in MCC-Spain study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2024Article
- Multi-Trait Body Shape Phenotypes and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: A Causal Mediation Analysis in the UK Biobank Cohort.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2024Article
- Reproductive characteristics, menopausal status, race and ethnicity, and risk of breast cancer subtypes defined by ER, PR and HER2 status: the Breast Cancer Etiology in Minorities study.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2024Article
- Breast Cancer Risk Factors among Women with Solid Breast Lesions.Clinics and practice · 2024Article
- Ranking of Modifiable Lifestyle Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Saudi Women: Population Attributable Risk and Nomogram.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2024Article
- A comparative analysis of clinicopathological features and survival between pre and postmenopausal breast cancer from an Indian cohort.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Anthropometry, bone mineral density and risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal Saudi women.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2023Article
- Association of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and demographic risk factors with breast cancer in Bangladeshi women.Medicine · 2022Article
- Breast cancer microenvironment and obesity: challenges for therapy.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2022Review
- Modifiable (Sleeping Pattern and Stress) and Non-Modifiable Risk Factors Associated with Breast Cancer: A Matched Case-Control Study in Delhi, India.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2022Article
- Breast cancer screening among Hispanic and non-Hispanic White women by birthplace in the Sister Study.Cancer medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
An estimated 1.38 million new cases of breast cancer (BC) are diagnosed each year in women worldwide. Of these, the majority are categorized as invasive ductal cell carcinoma. Subgroups of BC are frequently distinguished into five "intrinsic" subtypes, namely, luminal A, luminal B, normal-like, HER2-positive, and basal-like subtypes. Epidemiological evidence has shown that anthropometric factors are implicated in BC development. Overall consistent positive associations have been observed between high body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and the risk of BC among postmenopausal women, while conflicting results persist for premenopausal BC, both for BMI and for other anthropometric parameters as well as across ethnic groups. Furthermore, some evidence suggests that body size, body shape, and weight gain during childhood or adolescence may play a role in the risk of BC. In this paper, we describe the evidence linking anthropometric indices at different ages and BC risk, in order to improve our understanding of the role of body fat distribution in the risk of BC, investigate differences in these associations according to menopausal status and ethnic groups, and discuss the potential biological mechanisms linking body size and BC risk.
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