Birth weight and mammographic density among postmenopausal women in Sweden

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 985-991

  Tamimi, Rulla M ^a,b   Eriksson, Louise ^c   Lagiou, Pagona ^a,d   Czene, Kamila ^c   Ekbom, Anders ^e   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^a,f   Adami, Hans Olov ^a,c   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,c   Hall, Per ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth size; Birth weight; Breast cancer; Mammographic density; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SWEDEN;

EID: 74049155833     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24786     Document Type: Article

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