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. 2023 Oct 4;131(10):107001. doi: 10.1289/EHP11538

Table 3.

Obesity-related cancer HRs and 95% CIs based on time-varying neighborhood walkability (NW) sensitivity analyses (n=13,240).

Cases (n) NW HR (95% CI)
Overall (any first incident obesity-related cancer) 2,411 0.90 (0.86, 0.94)
Postmenopausal breast cancera 1,269 0.90 (0.85, 0.96)
Colorectal cancer 343 0.93 (0.92, 1.05)
 Colon cancer 275 0.95 (0.82, 1.09)
 Rectal cancer 68 0.85 (0.64, 1.14)
Cancer of the uterus (including endometrium) 282 0.88 (0.77, 1.00)
Ovarian cancer 138 0.84 (0.69, 1.02)
Pancreatic cancer 108 0.88 (0.70, 1.10)
Multiple myeloma and malignant plasma cell neoplasms 73 0.68 (0.49, 0.95)
Renal cancer 73 0.85 (0.63, 1.13)
Thyroid cancer 70 1.06 (0.82, 1.36)

Note: Time-varying Cox proportional hazard (PH) models were conducted to estimate the obesity-related cancer risk or HR associated with a per unit difference in continuous NW (SD-scaled), where SD=5.9. Annual walkability was considered for data points within the 31 y of follow-up. Models adjusted for covariates age, race/ethnicity, education level, smoking status, alcohol intake, menopausal status, parity, percentage below the poverty level living in neighborhood at baseline, and ever moving from baseline residence at any time during follow-up. Covariates alcohol, smoking status, education level, and race/ethnicity had missing observations and were included in the model using multiple imputation with 10 iterations for missing covariates. A total of 316,783.5 person-years at risk were accrued throughout the study. CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; SD, standard deviation.

a

Breast cancer diagnosed in menopause. Twenty-one women had unknown menopausal status at breast cancer diagnosis that were treated as a postmenopausal diagnosis if age at diagnosis was >50 and treated as premenopausal if age at diagnosis was <50 years of age.