Higher BMI in childhood may help protect women against breast cancer in later life, both before and after the menopause

(European Association for the Study of Obesity) A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are less likely than their peers with a lower BMI to develop breast cancer as adults, both before and after the menopause.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news