Background: Elevated waist circumference and body mass index (BMI), both traditional
measures of obesity, are accepted risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Girls who are …

Studies of the association between breast size, as a proxy for mammary gland mass, and
breast cancer risk have given equivocal results. Most have been case‐control studies with …

Objective: Breast size has been hypothesized to predict a woman's risk of breast cancer
although studies in the main have not supported an association. In a large, population …

OBJECTIVE To determine how childhood overweight, in conjunction with other life course
weight characteristics, relates to the development of type 2 diabetes in adulthood …

Purpose Body size, from birth throughout adulthood, is associated with breast cancer risk,
but few studies have investigated early-life body size and benign breast disease (BBD), a …

Purpose We conducted a study of women recruited at Meharry Medical College, a
historically black medical school, to investigate the relationship between diabetes and …

Introduction Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of
premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We …

Adult body mass index (BMI) is inversely associated with premenopausal breast cancer risk,
and childhood and adolescent body size is inversely associated with breast cancer risk in …

Body mass index (BMI) in adolescence, studied predominantly as a self-reported risk factor
for breast cancer (BC), may have been subjected to recall bias. We examined the …

Introduction Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with
reduced breast cancer risk, independent of adult body mass index (BMI). These associations …