An EPIC-Heidelberg study in Heart of 11,518 German women found each stillbirth was associated with a 2.65-fold higher risk of heart attack, still 2.32-fold after adjustment, and more than three miscarriages with a ninefold raised risk before adjustment. Abortion showed no link.
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How Does Induced Abortion Raise Breast Cancer Risk?
Surgeon Angela Lanfranchi contributes a piece arguing that growing evidence ties induced abortion, though not miscarriage, to higher breast cancer risk. She stresses it is one factor among many: most women with breast cancer never had an abortion, and most who have had one never get it.
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Pink News: Reproductive factors linked to breast cancer
An Iranian case-control study of 100 patients and 200 controls found later first pregnancy and abortion accompanying 310 and 193 percent higher breast cancer risk, while five or more births went with 91 percent lower risk. A Sri Lankan study tied longer breastfeeding to lower risk.
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