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Metabolic Syndrome May Make Breast Cancer More Likely from Health Day by Robert Preidt 6/30/09 (source: American Association for Cancer Research)

Follow this link: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_86263.html

Women with Metabolic Syndrome (insulin resistance syndrome) or women having some form of the syndrome have an increased risk of post menopausal breast cancer.

Women with Metabolic syndrome usually have abnormal glucose levels, high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, usually poor diets & little exercise.