ArticleBMC cancer2015
Alcohol consumption, body mass index and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor status: Women' Lifestyle and Health Study.
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- Alcohol consumption and cancer incidence in women: interaction with smoking, body mass index and menopausal hormone therapy.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- Joint association of alcohol consumption and adiposity with alcohol- and obesity-related cancer in a population sample of 399,575 UK adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer: probabilistic bias analysis for adjustment of exposure misclassification bias and confounders.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Article
- The association between alcohol intake and fecundability during menstrual cycle phases.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Omega-3 and -6 Fatty Acid Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort.Cancer research and treatment · 2020Article
- Cancer Awareness and Barriers to Seeking Medical Help Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan: a Baseline Study.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2019Article
- Epidemiology of Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer: Association or Causation?Cancers · 2018Review
- Connecting the dots between breast cancer, obesity and alcohol consumption in middle-aged women: ecological and case control studies.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Awareness and Misconceptions of Breast Cancer Risk Factors Among Laypersons and Physicians.Current oncology reports · 2018Observational
- Association of glutathione S-transferase T1, M1, and P1 polymorphisms in the breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to estimate the effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer risk and to test whether overweight and obesity modifies this association.
methodsWe included in the analysis 45,233 women enrolled in the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health study between 1991 and 1992. Participants were followed for occurrence of breast cancer and death until December 2009. Poisson regression models were used, and analyses were done for overall breast cancer and for estrogen receptor positive or negative (ER+, ER-) and progesterone receptor positive and negative (PR+, PR-) tumors separately.
resultsA total of 1,385 breast cancer cases were ascertained during the follow-up period. Overall, we found no statistically significant association between alcohol intake and breast cancer risk after adjustment for confounding, with an estimated relative risk (RR) of 1.01 (95 % CI: 0.98-1.04) for an increment in alcohol consumption of 5 g/day. A statistically significant elevated breast cancer risk associated with higher alcohol consumption was found only among women with BMI ≤25 (RR 1.03, 95 % CI 1.0-1.05 per 5 g/day increase).
conclusionAn increase in breast cancer risk with higher alcohol consumption was found for breast cancers in women with a BMI ≤25 kg/m(2).
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