Postmenopausal Women with Endometrial Cancer Have Greater Metabolic Dysfunction and Higher BMI than Women with Benign Endometrium
COOKE K, DUN E, ANAM A, FLANNERY C. Postmenopausal Women with Endometrial Cancer Have Greater Metabolic Dysfunction and Higher BMI than Women with Benign Endometrium. Diabetes 2018, 67 DOI: 10.2337/db18-302-lb.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEndometrial adenocarcinomaType 2 diabetesBenign hyperplasiaPostmenopausal womenBMI distributionEC pathogenesisMore premenopausal womenRole of obesityIndependent risk factorWomen age 50T-testStudent's t-testBMI 25Premenopausal womenLow HDLObese womenEndometrial cancerHigh triglyceridesTotal cholesterolHigher BMIMetabolic abnormalitiesProspective studyBenign endometriumMedical recordsRisk factors