Birth characteristics and female sex hormone concentrations during adolescence: Results from the Dietary Intervention Study in Children

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 611-621

  Ruder, Elizabeth H ^a   Hartman, Terryl J ^b   Rovine, Michael J ^b   Dorgan, Joanne F ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Birth weight; Breast cancer risk factors; Puberty; Sex steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE SULFATE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH LENGTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENARCHE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARTURITION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955757330     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9734-7     Document Type: Article

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