GIM Fellow Nisa Maruthur, MD, MHS, is first-named author of an article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine's "Online First" service has been attracting attention in the wider online publishing world. The article reports a study whose results indicate that obese women are less likely than others to report having had a recent mammogram. The authors find that this phenomenon is especially marked in white women. As obese women experience higher postmenopausal breast cancer risk, morbidity, and mortality, absence of screening is especially dangerous. Dr. Maruthur's co-authors are GIM Fellowship alumna Shari Bolen, MD, MPH, and GIM faculty members Frederick Brancati, MD, MHS, and Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH.
The article's full citation is Maruthur NM, Bolen S, Brancati FL, Clark JM. Obesity and Mammography: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Mar 11. [Epub ahead of print].
The full text can be accessed through SpringerLink at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2534243m45200x1v/
News Services that have picked up the story include:
Breast Cancer News Today: http://breastcancer.einnews.com/news/mammogram-screening
MDLinx: http://www.mdlinx.com/ObGynLinx/xml-article.cfm/2632946
Bio-Medicine: http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Obese-women-play-cancer-roulette-39655-1/
Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316133440.htm
Medicine World: http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2009/obese-woman-and-breast-cancer-risk.html
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