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. 1980 Jun;41(6):941–945. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1980.172

Nutrition and age at first birth in breast-cancer risk.

J Pawlega, R Wallace
PMCID: PMC2010360  PMID: 7426318

Abstract

Urban/rural breast-cancer incidence ratios in the state of Iowa for 1950 and 1969-71 were contrasted with corresponding urban and rural distributions of age-at-first-birth and population nutrition, variable measured approximately 15 years before each morbidity survey and putatively related to breast-cancer incidence. Over the study interval, the decline in the urban/rural breast-cancer incidence ratio correlated better with changing nutritional patterns than with changing age-at-first-birth.

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