1. Obesity and mortality after breast cancer by race/ethnicity: The California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium.
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Kwan, Marilyn L, John, Esther M, Caan, Bette J, Lee, Valerie S, Bernstein, Leslie, Cheng, Iona, Gomez, Scarlett Lin, Henderson, Brian E, Keegan, Theresa H M, Kurian, Allison W, Lu, Yani, Monroe, Kristine R, Roh, Janise M, Shariff-Marco, Salma, Sposto, Richard, Vigen, Cheryl, and Wu, Anna H
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Adult ,African Americans: statistics & numerical data ,Aged ,Asian Americans: statistics & numerical data ,Body Weights and Measures ,Breast Neoplasms: ethnology ,mortality ,California: epidemiology ,Continental Population Groups: statistics & numerical data ,Ethnic Groups: statistics & numerical data ,Female ,Hispanic Americans: statistics & numerical data ,Humans ,Middle Aged ,Obesity: ethnology ,Obesity ,Morbid: ethnology ,Residence Characteristics ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Survival Analysis ,Thinness: ethnology - Abstract
We investigated body size and survival by race/ethnicity in 11,351 breast cancer patients diagnosed from 1993 to 2007 with follow-up through 2009 by using data from questionnaires and the California Cancer Registry. We calculated hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals from multivariable Cox proportional hazard model-estimated associations of body size (body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and waist-hip ratio (WHR)) with breast cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Among 2,744 ascertained deaths, 1,445 were related to breast cancer. Being underweight (BMI
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- 2014