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SUBMITTER: Ollberding NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3595121 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ollberding Nicholas J NJ Kim Yeonju Y Shvetsov Yurii B YB Wilkens Lynne R LR Franke Adrian A AA Cooney Robert V RV Maskarinec Gertraud G Hernandez Brenda Y BY Henderson Brian E BE Le Marchand Loïc L Kolonel Laurence N LN Goodman Marc T MT
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) 20130301 3
Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. Adipokines and systemic inflammation have been hypothesized to underlie this association. In a case-control study nested within the Multiethnic Cohort, conditional logistic regression was used to calculate the ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for postmenopausal breast cancer associated with prediagnostic levels of serum leptin, adiponectin, the leptin:adiponectin ratio, and C-reactive protein (CRP). The 706 ...[more]