Thinness increases the risk of breast cancer

Lean women at greater risk of getting breast cancer than their peers with excess weight, as it became known in the course of the study. If a girl aged 7 years weighing less than normal, in the future it will face increased risk of this terrible disease.

Scientists at the Swedish Karolinska Institute in Stockholm also found that girls with a slight "overweight" subsequently less likely to get sick breast cancer , The question of its most aggressive form, which is the worst thing to treat. Results of the study have been published in the journal Breast Cancer Research.

The Swedes have studied 6000 women, half of whom suffered from breast cancer . All the ladies were divided into three groups depending on whether they had a body structure at age 7 - thin, medium, or excess weight . This division was based on the children's photographs of women and their memories.

Much to the surprise of the scientists themselves, they suddenly found that girls are more complete much less suffer from breast cancer When they reached menopause. This is all the more striking that recently during the study it was shown that excess weight   It is an aggravating factor in the prognosis of the treatment of breast tumors. And full of women die from the disease 50% more often.

Surprised scientists and that skinny girls are more at risk of cancer. While the authors of the study can not explain what it is connected. "We found that the larger the size of the baby at birth reduces the risk of subsequent development   breast cancer - Said study leader Dr. Lee Zhangmu. - We can not answer questions about the mechanisms to this effect. "

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