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Another risk for breast cancer.


Lesbians who come down with a simple cold may want to think twice before automatically asking for antibiotics Antibiotics Definition

Antibiotics may be informally defined as the subgroup of anti-infectives that are derived from bacterial sources and are used to treat bacterial infections.
. A new study linking the drugs to breast trotter trotter: see Standardbred horse.  risk may be cause for alarm among lesbians, who research has shown may already be at double the risk for the disease due to a higher prevalence of smoking, obesity obesity, condition resulting from excessive storage of fat in the body. Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index. , and alcohol use.

The study's authors, who stress that they have not proved antibiotics cause breast cancer, said they hope the findings, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association's February 18 issue, will prompt women gay and straight to stop inappropriate antibiotic antibiotic, any of a variety of substances, usually obtained from microorganisms, that inhibit the growth of or destroy certain other microorganisms. Types of Antibiotics
 use.
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Title Annotation:Research
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 30, 2004
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