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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1007</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ANTHROPOMETRIC FACTORS AND BREAST CANCER RISK AMONG WOMEN IN SOUTHERN RAJASTHAN, INDIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Dixit</surname><given-names>Mukul</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mittal</surname><given-names>Hemlata</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>21</fpage><lpage>24</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Breast cancer one of the most common cancer affecting women health worldwide cancer and cause of death from cancer. Obesity has been related with breast cancer risk. Materials and Methods: For the present study patients of breast tumours who attended surgical outdoor or breast clinic or patients admitted to the surgical wards of Maharana Bhopal Hospital, Udaipur from Jan__ampersandsignrsquo;97 to Jun__ampersandsignrsquo;97 were included. A complete clinical examination and of the patients was done to see the symptoms, clinical manifestations, involvement of tissues etc. Anthropometric measurements of weight and height were measured by the standard equipments and methodology. Results: It was observed 9.57 percent patients were obese and 90.42 percent patients were not obese among benign group, whereas 5.31 percent were obese and 94.11 percent patients were not obese among malignant group. Conclusions: The results of the present study had shown a negative association of overweight and obesity with breast cancer in the southern Rajasthan, India population.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Breast cancer</kwd><kwd> Obesity</kwd><kwd> BMI</kwd><kwd> Height.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
