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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 May;19(5):1301–1310. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0002

Table 4.

Relative risk of breast cancer by combinations of receptor status and quintiles of HCA, MDM and meat intake in women in the Nurses Health Study (1996–2006)

Quintile HCA Intake (ng/day)/Mutagenic Activity (revertants/day)
1 2 3 4 5 P trend
Estrogen positive/Progesterone positive
Total red meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
Cases 281 174 244 237 238
Multivariate RR 1 0.89 (0.73–1.08) 0.91 (0.76–1.08) 0.92 (0.77–1.10) 0.91 (0.75–1.10) 0.46
Total white meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
Cases 295 168 256 233 222
Multivariate RR 1 1.22 (1.01–1.49) 1.08 (0.91–1.28) 0.90 (0.76–1.08) 0.97 (0.81–1.17) 0.15
Processed meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
 Cases/Person-years 237 239 194 237 267
 Multivariate RR 1 1.03 (0.86–1.24) 0.90 (0.74–1.09) 0.94 (0.78–1.13) 1.06 (0.87–1.28) 0.54
Total MeIQx
 Cases 242 219 226 244 243
 Multivariate RR 1 0.88 (0.73–1.06) 0.89 (0.74–1.08) 0.97 (0.81–1.17) 0.93 (0.77–1.12) 0.88
Total PhIP
 Cases 247 223 228 252 224
 Multivariate RR 1 0.90 (0.75–1.08) 0.92 (0.76–1.10) 1.01 (0.84–1.21) 0.89 (0.74–1.08) 0.58
Total DiMeIQx
 Cases 242 211 234 238 249
 Multivariate RR 1 0.84 (0.70–1.01) 0.94 (0.79–1.13) 0.96 (0.80–1.15) 0.98 (0.82–1.18) 0.56
Meat derived mutagenic activity
 Cases 221 235 244 247 227
 Multivariate RR 1 1.05 (0.87–1.26) 1.09 (0.91–1.31) 1.10 (0.91–1.33) 0.99 (0.82–1.20) 0.77
Estrogen negative/Progesterone negative
Total red meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
Cases 68 46 62 57 62
Multivariate RR 1 0.99 (0.68–1.45) 1.00 (0.71–1.43) 1.02 (0.71–1.47) 1.05 (0.72–1.53) 0.79
Total white meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
Cases 85 31 59 66 54
Multivariate RR 1 0.77 (0.50–1.17) 0.93 (0.66–1.31) 0.86 (0.62–1.20) 0.88 (0.61–1.26) 0.53
Processed meat (1994–2002 FFQ)
 Cases 65 56 60 52 62
 Multivariate RR 1 0.86 (0.60–1.24) 0.99 (0.69–1.42) 0.77 (0.53–1.12) 0.90 (0.61–1.31) 0.61
Total MeIQx
 Cases 67 63 56 54 55
 Multivariate RR 1 0.91 (0.64–1.29) 0.83 (0.58–1.19) 0.78 (0.54–1.13) 0.79 (0.54–1.15) 0.23
Total PhIP
 Cases 69 68 51 61 46
 Multivariate RR 1 1.02 (0.73–1.43) 0.76 (0.52–1.09) 0.94 (0.66–1.34) 0.73 (0.50–1.08) 0.12
Total DiMeIQx
 Cases 62 67 63 58 45
 Multivariate RR 1 1.06 (0.75–1.51) 1.01 (0.71–1.45) 0.92 (0.64–1.33) 0.74 (0.50–1.10) 0.06
Meat derived mutagenic activity
 Cases 62 61 60 55 57
 Multivariate RR 1 0.97 (0.68–1.39) 0.96 (0.67–1.38) 0.91 (0.63–1.32) 0.93 (0.64–1.36) 0.70
*

Numbers in parenthesis next to RR are 95% confidence intervals

Multivariate models adjusted for same covariates as denoted in table 3