Relationship between resting heart rate and metabolic risk factors in breast cancer patients

Higher resting heart rate (RHR) was associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer survivors, but the mechanism underlying such association has not been fully studied. We investigated the association between RHR and metabolic risk factors in stage I-III breast cancer survivors.Among 11,013 women diagnosed with breast cancer between 2005 and 2013 at the Severance hospital in Seoul, Korea, a total of 4980 patients met our inclusion criteria for...