NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study show that higher than normal insulin levels are an independent risk factor for breast cancer.
Study investigators, led by Dr. Marc J. Gunter at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, examined the association between breast cancer and blood parameters at study entry in 835 women who later developed breast cancer and 816 who did not. All of the women were postmenopausal and none were diabetic at baseline.
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January 13th, 2009 | Posted in Breast Cancer, News | Tags: breast, cancer, High, increase, insulin, levels, risk
WASHINGTON - Women who take hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms do not have a higher than usual risk of heart attack, especially if they use a cream or skin patch or take cyclic hormone combinations, Danish researchers reported yesterday.
Their study, published in the European Heart Journal, suggests it is not hormone replacement therapy that raises the risk of heart attacks in women, but the way it is taken.
It also shows that the Women’s Health Initiative, which frightened many women away from HRT after it was stopped in 2002, may not be the last word on treatment.
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January 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Breast Cancer | Tags: Attack, does, finds, Heart, increase, risk, Study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study show that higher than normal insulin levels are an independent risk factor for breast cancer.
Study investigators, led by Dr. Marc J. Gunter at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, examined the association between breast cancer and blood parameters at study entry in 835 women who later developed breast cancer and 816 who did not. All of the women were postmenopausal and none were diabetic at baseline.
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January 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Breast Cancer, News | Tags: breast, cancer, High, increase, insulin, levels, risk