Adjusting for BMI in analyses of volumetric mammographic density and breast cancer risk

BACKGROUND: Fully automated assessment of mammographic density (MD), a biomarker of breast cancer risk, is being increasingly performed in screening settings. However, data on body mass index (BMI), a confounder of the MD–risk association, are not routinely collected at screening. We investigated wh...

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Autores principales: Hudson, Sue, Vik Hjerkind, Kirsti, Vinnicombe, Sarah, Allen, Steve, Trewin, Cassia, Ursin, Giske, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, De Stavola, Bianca L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-1078-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-1078-8

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