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Race or Resource? BMI, Race, and Other Social Factors as Risk Factors for Interlimb Differences among Overweight Breast Cancer Survivors with Lymphedema

Introduction. High BMI is a risk factor for upper body breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) onset. Black cancer survivors are more likely to have high BMI than White cancer survivors. While observational analyses suggest up to 2.2 times increased risk of BCRL onset for Black breast cancer survivo...

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Autores principales: Dean, Lorraine T., Kumar, Anagha, Kim, Taehoon, Herling, Matthew, Brown, Justin C., Zhang, Zi, Evangelisti, Margaret, Hackley, Renata, Kim, Jiyoung, Cheville, Andrea, Troxel, Andrea B., Schwartz, J. Sanford, Schmitz, Kathryn H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27433356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8241710