May 15th, 2010 by Stand Team

The problem of obesity in Peruvian women no longer must only be associated with diseases such as heart strokes, cerebrovascular disorders and diabetes mellitus. A recent research carried out in our country concluded that it is also related to an increased risk of breast cancer. If you want to know more about this topic, keep reading.
“To reach this conclusion was compared to the weight reported during most of the adult life in patients with breast cancer with the weight reported healthy patients; both were of the same age groups and shared similar characteristics,” explained to the Trade a physician Jose Ernesto Rojas Camayo, lead author of the work together to Ivan Huamaní de la Cruz.

Thus, found that women with this type of evil breast had approximately six kilos more on average than in healthy women, and in the same way to make the same comparisons between women pre and post-menopausal separately also gave similar results. “That yes, our work found that the risk of contracting the disease is much higher after menopause,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »