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Demetrius Albanes, MD; Charles Brown, PhD
Department of Health and Human Services Bethesda, Md

JAMA. 1990;263(23):3148.

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To the Editor.—

In their recent study, London et al¹ report decreased relative risks for premenopausal breast cancer among women of higher body mass index (BMI) compared with leaner women. Body mass index was found not to be related to the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer. The authors state: "Our findings suggest that adult adipose tissue is related to reduced risk of premenopausal breast cancer and does not increase appreciably breast cancer risk among younger postmenopausal women." This conclusion may be unwarrant ed, however, because of the potential bias introduced by the use of Quetelet's BMI (weight in kilograms divided by the second power of height in meters), which has been found to be inversely correlated with height,² and because height is associated positively with breast cancer risk in this and other³ studies.

Study.—

We examined this BMI-height association for 4883 women aged 30 to 60 years . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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