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Tumor/*blood;; Body Mass Index;; Breast Neoplasms/*blood/*epidemiology/etiology;; C-Reactive Protein/*metabolism;; Estradiol/blood;; Female;; Hepatocyte Growth Factor/blood;; Humans;; Inflammation/blood/*complications;; Insulin/blood;; Interleukin-6/blood;; Leptin/blood;; Middle Aged;; Obesity/blood/*complications;; Odds Ratio;; Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1/blood;; Postmenopause;; Proportional Hazards Models;; Prospective Studies;; Resistin/blood;; Risk Assessment;; Risk Factors;; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/blood
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Circulating Adipokines And Inflammatory Markers And Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk, M. J. Gunter, T. Wang, M. Cushman, X. Xue, S. Wassertheil-Smoller, H. D. Strickler, T. E. Rohan, J. E. Manson, A. Mctiernan, G. Y. Ho, +5 Additional Authors
Circulating Adipokines And Inflammatory Markers And Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk, M. J. Gunter, T. Wang, M. Cushman, X. Xue, S. Wassertheil-Smoller, H. D. Strickler, T. E. Rohan, J. E. Manson, A. Mctiernan, G. Y. Ho, +5 Additional Authors
Journal Articles
BACKGROUND: Adipokines and inflammation may provide a mechanistic link between obesity and postmenopausal breast cancer, yet epidemiologic data on their associations with breast cancer risk are limited. METHODS: In a case-cohort analysis nested within the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, a prospective cohort of postmenopausal women, baseline plasma samples from 875 incident breast cancer case patients and 839 subcohort participants were tested for levels of seven adipokines, namely leptin, adiponectin, resistin, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, hepatocyte growth factor, and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, and for C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory marker. Data were analyzed by multivariable Cox modeling that included established …