Table 2.
Characteristic | Spearman correlation | P† |
Age, y | −.64 | <.001 |
Height, cm | .01 | .87 |
BMI, kg/m2 | .07 | .33 |
Menarche, y | .07 | .34 |
Age at first pregnancy, y‡ | −.05 | .47 |
No. of full-term pregnancies | .08 | .28 |
Control subjects are from the prospective case–control study of serum Müllerian inhibiting substance and breast cancer risk nested in the Columbia, Missouri Serum Bank. All variables are continuous. BMI = body mass index.
P values (two-sided) were calculated by using a t-statistic transformation to test correlation = 0.
Includes 190 parous control subjects.