, prospective study controlling for such factors as BMI, age, height, blood pressure, and total serum cholesterol demonstrated that postmenopausal women with increased HDLc had a significantly reduced risk of developing breast cancer (RR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.97; Table 5).36 When patients were stratified by BMI, overweight or obese (???25 BMI) postmenopausal patients in the highest quartile of