Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk Among Postmenopausal Women With and Without CVD
Heinz Freisling, Scientist at International Agency for Research on Cancer, shared a post on X:
“Postmenopausal women with CVD have a 31% higher risk of breast cancer with each 5 kg/m² increase in BMI, compared to a 13% increase in those without CVD.”
Title: Body mass index and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women with and without cardiometabolic diseases: Findings from two prospective cohort studies in Europe
Authors: Emma Fontvieille, Anna Jansana, Laia Peruchet-Noray, Reynalda Córdova, Quan Gan, Sabina Rinaldi, Laure Dossus, Yahya Mahamat-Saleh, Marc J Gunter, Alicia Heath, Dagfinn Aune, Elif Inan-Eroglu, Matthias B Schulze, Niels Bock, Christina C Dahm, Carlota Castro-Espin, Maria-José Sánchez, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Sandar Tin Tin, Sabina Sieri, Vittorio Simeon, Fulvio Ricceri, Rosario Tumino, N Charlotte Onland-Moret, Yvonne Koop, Pietro Ferrari, Heinz Freisling
Read the Full Article on ACS Journal Cancer
IARC shared this post, adding:
“New paper shows women with overweight/obesity and a history of cardiovascular disease are 31% more likely to develop Breast Cancer than women without overweight/obesity and CVD, and are more likely to develop BC than women with overweight/obesity but no CVD.”
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