Measured body size and serum estrogen metabolism in postmenopausal women: the Ghana Breast Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several anthropometric measures have been associated with hormone-related cancers, and it has been shown that estrogen metabolism in postmenopausal women plays an important role in these relationships. However, little is known about circulating estrogen levels in African women, and the relevance to breast cancer or breast cancer risk factors. To shed further light on the relationship of anthropometric factors and estrogen levels in African women, we examined whether measured body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), height, and self-reported body size were associated with serum estrogens/estrogen metabolites in a cross-sectional analysis among postmenopausal population-based controls of the Ghana Breast Health Study.

Methods

Fifteen estrogens/estrogen metab

SUBMITTER: Geczik AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8793253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature