| Titre : | Birthweight differences between usa and China and their relevance to breast cancer aetiology. Commentary : Cancer. (2003) |
| Auteurs : | Pagona LAGIOU ; Hans-Olov ADAMI ; . BIAO XU ; Sven CNATTINGIUS ; Chung-Cheng HSIEH ; Lorelei MUCCI ; Mona OKASHA ; Rulla TAMIMI ; Dimitrios TRICHOPOULOS ; Joanne WUU ; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology. School of Medicine. University of Athens. GRC ; University of Massachusetts Cancer Center. Worcester. MA. USA |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 32, n° 2, 2003) |
| Pagination : | 193-199 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Poids naissance ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Chine ; Asie ; Association ; Cancer ; Sein ; Homme ; Amérique du Nord |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS FTRR0xqy. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : There has been renewed interest about determinants of birth size following the propagation of hypotheses that birth size parameters may have long-term consequences on the occurrence of common diseases in adulthood, including breast cancer. Methods : In the context of a cohort study, 296 Caucasian pregnant women in Boston, USA and 329 Chinese pregnant women in Shanghai, China were followed to term. Birth size characteristics of the baby and maternal anthropometry were measured using standardized protocols. Analyses were conducted through multiple regression procedures. Results : No significant difference was found between US and Chinese newborns with respect to gestational age. Among US women, pregravid oral contraceptive use was strongly associated with higher birthweight. In both US and Chinese women, birthweight was positively associated with height, pre-pregnancy body mass index, and weight gain during pregnancy. More importantly, the difference in these three maternal variables between the two samples fully explains the birthweight difference between the two populations. Conclusions : We postulate that babies in China may have lower birthweight because their mothers'anthropometry imposes constraints on the growth of the foetus. When Chinese women migrate to the US, they tend to grow taller and heavier so that their babies can reach, on the average, a higher birthweight. The recurrence of this process in successive generations could explain why eventually Chinese Americans tend to have comparable birth and adult anthropometric characteristics, as well as comparable breast cancer rates, to those of Caucasian Americans. |
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