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...report, published in the Nov. 27 Archives of Internal Medicine and headed by Karin B. Michels, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explored the link between body mass index (BMI) and premenopausal breast cancer...
...Premenopausal breast cancer is usually more aggressive and deadly than postmenopausal breast cancer,” Michels wrote in an e-mail. “It is also particularly tragic for a young woman to get breast cancer...
Michels and her colleagues examined over 113,000 participants from 1989 to 2003 and found that a higher index correlated with a lower probability of premenopausal breast cancer...
According to the study, women with a BMI of 30 or above are 19 percent less likely to suffer premenopausal breast cancer than those with a BMI between 20 and 22.2, a range the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies as normal...
...findings also show that an individual’s BMI at age 18 is the strongest indicator of a lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer...