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Long-term exposure to insulin and volumetric mammographic density: observational and genetic associations in the Karma study

BACKGROUND: Long-term insulin exposure has been implicated in breast cancer etiology, but epidemiological evidence remains inconclusive. The aims of this study were to investigate the association of insulin therapy with mammographic density (MD) as an intermediate phenotype for breast cancer and to...

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Autores principales: Borgquist, Signe, Rosendahl, Ann H., Czene, Kamila, Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala, Dorkhan, Mozhgan, Hall, Per, Brand, Judith S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30092829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-1026-7