Find out Breast Cancer In your Mom's Hips
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
In a Recent Interesting Study, Researchers have found out that women whose mother have large and round hips have greater breast cancer risk, nearly 7 times more risk.
A woman's Hip size is a marker of the hormone estrogen production. Wide Round hips represent markers of high sex hormone concentrations in the mother, which increases daughter's vulnerability to breast cancer.
According to the study, measurement taken was intercristal diameter, which is the distance between the top most points of the hip bones of the 2 sides. They found out the risk of Breast cancer increased to 60% in mothers who had hips more than 30cms across.
They also added that babies carried by wide hipped women for full 40 weeks of pregnancy or more had 3.7 times of risk of breast Cancer.
