In a large study of women's health, postmenopausal women who followed a healthy lifestyle were at a third lower risk of death, including a 20% smaller chance of dying from cancer, than women who did not follow guidance on diet, weight, physical activity, and alcohol intake.
"While it is well recognized that tobacco cessation is the lead behavioral change to reduce cancer risk," the authors write, they analyzed the effect of other cancer prevention recommendations.
The researchers used data gathered by the observational study in the women's health initiative of the US National Institutes of Health, which was launched in 1992 with a $140 million, 15-year contract: "the largest coordinated study of women's health ever undertaken."
Cynthia Thomson PhD and her colleagues analyzed data from 65,838 postmenopausal women age between 50 and 79 years.
The participants were enrolled in the women's health initiative between 1993 and 1998 at 40 clinical centers across the country, and the team's analysis represents the "largest study of postmenopausal women in the US."
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