The trend appeared to be somewhat greater in non-white than in white women, but the difference was of borderline significance ( p heterogeneity = 0.02), and, given the large number of comparisons made, it may well be due to chance.
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Ovarian cancer and body size: individual participant meta-analysis including 25,157 women with ovarian cancer from 47 epidemiological studies.
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However, there was highly significant variation in the findings by study design ( p heterogeneity <0.001 for each); this is illustrated in Figure 1 , which shows study-specific relative risks of ovarian cancer risk per 5 cm increase in height and per 5 kg/m 2 increase in body mass index, grouped by study design.