Titre : | Reproductive factors and risk of endometrial cancer : The Iowa women's health study. (1996) |
Auteurs : | C.P. MCPHERSON ; R.M. BOSTICK ; A.R. FOLSOM ; J.D. POTTER ; T.A. SELLERS ; Division of Epidemiology. School of Public Health. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis MN. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 143, n° 12, 1996) |
Pagination : | 1195-1202 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Cancer ; Endomètre ; Facteur risque ; Fécondabilité ; Femme enceinte ; Avortement ; Etude prospective ; Femme ; Homme ; Epidémiologie ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Utérus [pathologie] ; Incidence ; Reproduction |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST NcEVyR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Gravidity and parity have strong inverse relations with endometrial cancer occurrence. To determine whether gravidity masks an association with other reproductive factors, the authors analyzed data from a cohort study of 24,848 postmenopausal Iowa women aged 55-69 years who were cancer free at baseline in 1986 and who had not had a hysterectomy. During 5 years of follow-up, 167 incident endometrial cancer cases were documented. As expected, the mean gravidity of cases was lower than that of noncases (2.6 vs. 3.5, p |