Risk of breast cancer depends on the size of the skirt

A middle-aged and older, wearing a skirt of the same size that they had and after 20 years, are least likely to be faced with breast cancer. This is the conclusion, researchers from University College in London.

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Most women with Talia increasing age, and with each new size Skirt   and increases the risk of cancer Breast As established in London scientists. Unless Size skirt   It increases every 10 years between 20 and 60 years, then the risk of breast tumors after menopause rises 33%. In women, size skirts which grow at a rate twice as high as danger breast cancer   It grows on 77%.

These data, scientists have, watching more than 90 thousand women. The relationship between the size skirts and cancer breast was fixed, regardless of the weight of women in general. Note that Obesity has long been considered one of the main risk factors in the formation of cancer, but in recent years there is increasing evidence that the main the danger comes from the size of the waist and the accumulation of excess fat is in this region.

So in the new study, researchers We found that the size of the skirt, increases with age, is more reliable prediction tool risk of breast cancer than women in the total weight of the whole. By According to the authors, the additional volume at the waist can raise the level of the female hormone estrogen in the body, which is the "fuel" for tumor growth. Experts believe that women are much easier to control clothing sizes than follow the body mass index for decades. (READ MORE)

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