ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2015
Type 2 diabetes and mammographic breast density among underserved women.
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- Is Breastfeeding an Effective Approach to Reduce Metabolic Risk After GDM in Mothers and Infants?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Can artificial intelligence detect type 2 diabetes in women by evaluating the pectoral muscle on tomosynthesis: diagnostic study.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- The association of metformin and aspirin intake with mammographic breast density: A cross-sectional study.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2023Article
- Independent and joint cross-sectional associations of statin and metformin use with mammographic breast density.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2020Article
- Gestational diabetes, type II diabetes, and mammographic breast density in a U.S. racially diverse population screened for breast cancer.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2018Article
- Diabetes, diabetes treatment, and mammographic density in Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2017Article
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purposeWe conducted a study of women recruited at Meharry Medical College, a historically black medical school, to investigate the relationship between diabetes and mammographic breast density.
methodsA total of 476 women completed in-person interviews, body measurements, and full-field digital mammograms on a Hologic mammography unit from December 2011 to February 2014. Average percent breast density for the left and right breasts combined was estimated using Quantra, an automated algorithm for volumetric assessment of breast tissue. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes was determined by self-report.
resultsAfter adjustment for confounding variables, the mean percent breast density among premenopausal women with type 2 diabetes [[Formula: see text] 13.8 %, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 11.6-15.9] was nonsignificantly lower than that of women without type 2 diabetes ([Formula: see text] 15.9 %, 95 % CI 15.0-16.8) (p = 0.07); however, there was no association among postmenopausal women. The effect of type 2 diabetes in severely obese women (BMI ≥ 35) appeared to differ by menopausal status with a reduction in mean percent breast density in premenopausal women, but an increase in mean percent breast density in postmenopausal women which could have been due to chance.
conclusionsConfirmation of our findings in larger studies may assist in clarifying the role of the insulin signaling breast cancer pathway in women with high breast density.
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