Reassessing the causal role of early-life adiposity in breast cancer: could the apparent inverse associations be a manifestation of survival bias?

Int J Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 2;52(4):1292-1293. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyad027.

Authors

C Mary Schooling^{1

2}, Kezhen Fei¹, Mary Beth Terry³

Affiliations

¹ CUNY School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
² School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 36913517
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyad027

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Adiposity
Body Mass Index
Breast Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Causality
Female
Humans
Obesity / epidemiology
Risk Factors