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ArticleCancer research2017

An Adolescent and Early Adulthood Dietary Pattern Associated with Inflammation and the Incidence of Breast Cancer.

Holly R Harris, Walter C Willett, Rita L Vaidya, Karin B Michels

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Article in Cancer research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Holly R HarrisDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Walter C WillettDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rita L VaidyaDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Karin B MichelsDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. k.michels@ucla.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Younger NursesR01CA050385 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI ELIASSEN, A. HEATHER, WILLETT, WALTER C. · 1989 to 2019
$32.3M
Life Course Cancer Epidemiology Cohort in WomenUM1CA176726 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI WILLETT, WALTER C. · 2013 to 2017
$15.7M
Adolescent Dietary Pattern and Premenopausal Breast CancerR03CA170952 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHELS, KARIN B · 2013 to 2014
$174k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA050385NCI NIH HHS R03 CA170952NCI NIH HHS UM1 CA176726
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescence is a highly susceptible period for mammary carcinogenesis, but few prospective studies have examined the role of adolescent diet in breast cancer risk. Reduced rank regression has previously been used to identify a dietary pattern associated with markers of inflammation (C-reactive protein, IL6, and TNFα receptor 2). We investigated whether an adolescent and early adulthood inflammatory dietary pattern was associated with breast cancer among 45,204 women in the Nurses' Health Study II using reduced rank regression. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1998 about their high school diet (HS-FFQ) and a FFQ in 1991 when they were ages 27-44 years. Among women who completed the HS-FFQ, 1,477 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed during 22 years of follow-up. An adolescent and early adulthood dietary pattern characterized by inflammation was associated with an increased incidence of premenopausal but not postmenopausal breast cancer. Women in the fifth quintile of the inflammatory pattern score had multivariable adjusted HRs for premenopausal breast cancer of 1.35 for adolescent diet [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.06-1.73;

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AdolescentAdultBreast NeoplasmsDietFemaleHumansIncidenceInflammationMiddle AgedNursesRisk AssessmentSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesYoung Adult

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