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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:198-199
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Special Theme: Cancer

Commentary: Inter-ethnic studies of breast cancer risk

Mona Okasha

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

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In this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology, Lagiou and colleagues present data comparing maternal anthropometric determinants of birthweight in USA and China.1 They performed two parallel cohort studies of pregnant women, and described the determinants of the offspring’s birthweight within each population. They then looked for determinants of the difference between the birthweights, in an inter-population comparison.

Higher birthweight has been repeatedly shown to be associated with a higher breast cancer risk in data from case-control studies2,3 and cohort studies.4,5 Although not all studies have replicated this finding,6,7 the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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