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Sex hormone levels in premenopausal African-American women with upper and lower body fat phenotypes.
Nutrition and cancer - 1 Jan 2001
Barnett J B, Woods M N, Rosner B, McCormack C, Longcope C, Houser R F, Gorbach S L
Abstract excerpt
Body fat distribution may be a better marker of a hormonal pattern associated with increased breast cancer risk than obesity. This cross-sectional study of 106 healthy premenopausal African-American (AA) women compared the midfollicular phase sex hormone and sex hormone-binding globulin levels in upper body fat (UBF) and lower body fat (LBF) phenotype and obese and nonobese women. Multivariate regression analyses...
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