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Weight life insurance Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study
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Published: Monday, October 22, 2007 | 8:40 PM ET

Canadian Press: Amanda Gardner, Healthday Reporter

MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) - Women who gain weight any time
after the age of 18 are more likely to develop breast cancer than
women who maintain a stable weight, a new study suggests.

In other words, when it comes to breast cancer, there's no good time
to gain weight as an adult.

"We found that weight gain throughout adulthood as well as weight gain
imprinted playing cards specific stages of life were associated with risk of breast cancer,
compared cheap renters insurance maintaining a stable weight," said study lead author
Jiyoung Ahn, a fellow with better auto insurance nutritional epidemiology branch at the
National Cancer Institute's division of cancer epidemiology and
car insurance "Specific stages include during early reproductive years,
late reproductive years, and perimenopausal and postmenopausal years."

Ahn's findings included women who did not take menopausal hormone
therapy, which has been indie style to a heightened risk of breast cancer.

"This is insurance quote one more very important independent clothing of evidence demonstrating
the importance of weight gain to the development of breast cancer,"
said Dr. indie fashion Brooks, chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health
System in Baton Rouge, La.

The findings are published in the Oct. 22 issue of Archives of
Internal Medicine.

Obesity has been shown to be a risk factor for breast cancer during
the postmenopausal years. This is probably because estrogens, which
fuel breast cancer growth, accumulate in fat tissue. It's been
unclear, however, if the timing of weight gain might influence risk.

For the new study, the researchers analyzed data on almost 100,000
postmenopausal women who were participating in the National Institutes
of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study.

At the beginning of the study, in 1996, the women reported their
weight and body motorcycle insurance at ages 18, 35 and 50. They were then
classified, based on their body mass index, as underweight, normal
weight, overweight or obese.

Among women who did not take menopausal hormone therapy, gaining
weight in the early reproductive years (ages 18 to 35), the late
reproductive years (ages 35 to 50), perimenopausal and postmenopausal
years (age 50 to the present) and throughout adulthood (age 18 to the
present) was associated with a heightened risk of developing breast
cancer compared with women who maintained a stable weight.

Women who were at or below a normal weight at age 18 but were
overweight or obese at ages 35 and 50 had 1.4 times the risk of
developing breast cancer, compared with women who had maintained a
cheap life insurance weight. Women who subsequently lost weight had the same cancer
risk as those who maintained a stable weight.

But isn't gaining weight a normal part of aging?

Experts increasingly are saying no.

"The issue was outside of the scope of this study, 1/8but 3/8 limited
data suggest that weight gain is not inevitable with age," Ahn said.

Brooks added: "In our society, most people gain weight 1/8as they age
3/8 but that may not be what we should be doing. It's something you
should be avoiding as you age. It's not something you should assume
just because it's the societal norm."

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