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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 5.

Relative risk of total breast cancer by HCA and MDM intake and fruit and vegetable intake in women in the Nurses Health Study (1996–2006)

	Low Fruit/Vegetable (<5.25 serving/day)	High Fruit/Vegetable (>=5.25 serving/day)	P-interaction
Total MeIQx
Cases (lowest/highest quintile)	167/199	257/189
Multivariate RR^†	1.08 (0.87–1.35)	0.81 (0.66–1.00)	0.12
Total PhIP
Cases (lowest/highest quintile)	181/153	244/197
Multivariate RR^†	1.03 (0.82–1.29)	0.77 (0.63–0.93)	0.45
Total DiMeIQx
Cases (lowest/highest quintile)	176/173	235/200
Multivariate RR^†	0.95 (0.76–1.18)	0.92 (0.76–1.12)	0.86
Meat derived mutagenic activity
Cases (lowest/highest quintile)	180/177	224/205
Multivariate RR^†	1.16 (0.94–1.44)	0.85 (0.70–1.03)	0.07

Numbers in parenthesis next to RR are 95% confidence intervals

^†

Multivariate models adjusted for same covariates as denoted in table 3