Metabolic Syndrome, and Particularly the Hypertriglyceridemic-Waist Phenotype, Increases Breast Cancer Risk, and Adiponectin Is a Potential Mechanism: A Case–Control Study in Chinese Women

Objective: To investigate the association between metabolic syndrome and breast cancer and to elucidate the potential mechanism underlying this association. Patients and Methods: Based on baseline data drawn from 21 hospitals in 11 provinces of China, we performed a case–control study among 1127 women (595 cases and 532 controls), divided into premenopausal and postmenopausal subgroups. Student’s t-test, Pearson’s χ2 test, and logistic...