Table 5.
Odds Ratios and 95% CI’s for the Association between Breast Cancer, BMI, and Menopausal Status (Univariate analysis)
| Premenopausal | P-Value | Postmenopausal | P-Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Control | OR (95% CI) | Cases | Control | OR (95% CI) | |||
| N | N | N | N | |||||
| BMI status | ||||||||
| Total | ||||||||
| Normal | 14 | 12 | 1.0 | 13 | 33 | 1.0 | ||
| Over weight | 29 | 29 | 1.1 (0.5 – 2.3) | 0.825 | 37 | 40 | 2.3 (1.1 – 5.1) | 0.032 |
| Obesity | 53 | 37 | 1.7 (0.8 – 3.4) | 0.174 | 91 | 81 | 2.9 (1.4 – 5.8) | 0.004 |
| African-American | ||||||||
| Normal | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 6 | 23 | 1.0 | ||
| Over weight | 6 | 6 | 0.5 (0.1 – 2.6) | 0.410 | 16 | 22 | 2.8 (0.9 – 8.4) | 0.069 |
| Obesity | 21 | 9 | 1.2 (0.3 – 4.9) | 0.833 | 56 | 45 | 4.8 (1.8 – 12.7) | 0.002 |
| Hispanic | ||||||||
| Normal | 6 | 8 | 1.0 | 7 | 10 | 1.0 | ||
| Over weight | 23 | 23 | 1.3 (0.4 – 3.6) | 0.640 | 21 | 18 | 1.7 (0.5 – 5.3) | 0.385 |
| Obesity | 32 | 28 | 1.5 (0.5 – 4.9) | 0.482 | 35 | 36 | 1.4 (0.5 – 4.1) | 0.548 |