BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that woman's risk of breast cancer in later life is associated with her infants birth weights. The objective of this study was to determine if this association is independent of breast cancer risk factors, mother's own birth weight and to evaluate association between infants birth weight and hormonal environment during pregnancy. Independent association wo...

OBJECTIVE To define the range of neonatal weight loss in a population relative to feeding method. DESIGN Prospective observational cohort study. SETTING Maternity service providing geographically defined, community based newborn follow up. PARTICIPANTS 971 consecutive term newborns of birth weight > or = 2500 g during the first 2-3 weeks of life; 34 excluded (inadequate data). 937 include...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. Lifestyle factors including excess weight contribute to risk of developing the disease. Whilst the exact links between weight and breast cancer are still emerging, it is imperative to explore how women understand these links and if these beliefs impact on successful behaviour change. METHOD Overweight/obese premenopausal women (age...

the current study was conducted to investigate the effect of short-term selection in japanese quail for its 4-week body and breast weights. two selected lines, one for selection of body weight based upon in. breeding values (line 1) and another for breast weight based on between family selections (line 2) were randomly selected from a base population. in each generation, 39 sire and 78 dam-bird...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between full breast-feeding up to 6 months as well as partial breast-feeding after 6 months and maternal weight retention at 6, 18 and 36 months after delivery in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. DESIGN Cohort study. Information on exposure and outcome was collected by questionn...

in this research the effects of different levels of oily and aqueous extracts of chamomile flower on biochemical characteristics and quality of breast meat were examined. using 400 broiler chicken (cup 500) in to 5 treatments, with 4 replicates and 20 chickens per replicate chicken were daily treated with 85 and 128 mg per kg body weight aqueous extracts, and 14 and 21 mg per kg body weight of ...

overweight and elevated bmi can increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. on the other hand, it seems that exercise training affect weight and bmi. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise training on some anthropometric variables in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. thus, 29 postmenopausal women with breast cancer who received surgery, chemother...