Bad news! Lefthandedness, healthy weight: breast cancer risk factors!

[NorthernSpy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthology/story?id=1159036

:think:

Overall, left-handed women were at a 39 percent higher risk for developing breast cancer, the researchers found.

The risk for premenopausal cancer among left-handed women was more than twice as high, they added. There appeared to be no excess risk for postmenopausal breast malignancies, however.

In addition, left-handed women with a body mass index of 25 or lower were also at an increased risk for breast cancer, but not women with a body mass index over 25 (for reference, overweight begins at a BMI of 25 or above).

However:

Any excess risk linked to left-handedness was also only seen in women who had borne children, the investigators found.

From now on, I will try to do everything righthanded.

:dunce:

I think I also remember reading that height over 5'6" is a risk factor.

Everydamnthing is a "risk factor", it seems...


:(

[rodeodance]

1. and small toads grow up to be big toads

[Peter90]

10. ?

:wtf: What are you talking about?

[sui generis]

2. Waugh!!!!!!

Mr. Sui is 6'2" and left handed and 7% body fat and he has big pecs (see avatar)

Fortunately he has not borne any children. That I'm aware of.

:silly:

[Missy M]

3. What a bunch of crap this is. Anyone who believes this nonsense....

will buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Peter90]

9. I agree

How do you even know that this is a legitimately founded ... research, if it's even real?

[Talismom]

4. A correlation is very different than a cause! n/t

[murray hill farm]

5. i read this on yahoo news...and immediately wondered...

about the format of the testing...since there are fewer left handed women than right handed women...and generally left handed women are more right brain influenced (more emotion orientated, sensitive, etc) ..well just what all did the researchers take into account..did all the left and right handed subjects carry the same wt or body fat...was this difference taken into account. there has been much research about the connection to cancer..especially breast cancer.of how one deals with anger (repressed vs not repressed), that i think if there is a link between left handedness and breast cancere, that it may well be more connected to right brain dominance than it is to left handedness. there are just too many variables in this type of study...someone just needed an easy doctoral disertation subject and this one was one that easy to document. so many of these studies begin with just that in mind.

[bemildred]

6. Thank goodness being gay is still OK. nt

[Igel]

7. Abstract here,

if I can link directly to it:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/rapidpdf/bmj.38572.440359.AEv1

Nope: you'll have to click on automatic download.

Handedness correlation looks robust enough, nulliparous/parous correlation looks to be based on rather few people.

[Peter90]

8. Foundation of research

x( Do you know who funded the reaserch?