ArticleBreast cancer research and treatment2016
Adolescent intake of animal fat and red meat in relation to premenopausal mammographic density.
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- Dietary Patterns, Dietary Interventions, and Mammographic Breast Density: A Systematic Literature Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
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- Dietary Fat Intake: Associations with Dietary Patterns and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer-A Case-Control Study.Cancers · 2022Article
- Breast cancer and dietary fat quality indices in Iranian women: A case-control study.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
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- Adolescent and early adulthood inflammation-associated dietary patterns in relation to premenopausal mammographic density.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2021Article
- Immigration history, lifestyle characteristics, and breast density in the Vietnamese American Women's Health Study: a cross-sectional analysis.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2020Article
- Dietary intake from birth through adolescence in relation to risk of benign breast disease in young women.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2019Article
- Obesity, Dietary Factors, Nutrition, and Breast Cancer Risk.Current breast cancer reports · 2018Article
- Alcohol consumption across the life course and mammographic density in premenopausal women.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2018Article
- Early Life Exposures and Adult Cancer Risk.Epidemiologic reviews · 2017Review
- Adolescent fiber intake and mammographic breast density in premenopausal women.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2016Article
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Abstract
Adolescence is hypothesized to be a time period of particular susceptibility to breast cancer risk factors. Red meat and fat intake during high school was positively associated with risk of breast cancer among premenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII). High mammographic density is a strong predictor of breast cancer risk but there is limited research on dietary factors associated with breast density. To test the hypothesis that high intake of animal fat or red meat during adolescence is associated with mammographic density, we analyzed data from premenopausal women in the NHSII. Participants recalled adolescent diet on a high school food frequency questionnaire. We assessed absolute and percent mammographic density on digitized analog film mammograms for 687 premenopausal women with no history of cancer. We used generalized linear regression to quantify associations of adolescent animal fat and red meat intake with mammographic density, adjusting for age, body mass index, and other predictors of mammographic density. Adolescent animal fat intake was significantly positively associated with premenopausal mammographic density, with a mean percent density of 39.2 % in the lowest quartile of adolescent animal fat intake versus 43.1 % in the highest quartile (p trend: 0.03). A non-significant positive association was also observed for adolescent red meat intake (p trend: 0.14). These findings suggest that higher adolescent animal fat intake is weakly associated with percent mammographic density in premenopausal women.
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