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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2013 May 9;24(7):1427–1436. doi: 10.1007/s10552-013-0222-0

Table 4.

Consumption of added sugars and endometrial cancer risk by selected characteristics in The EDGE Study.

Sources of Sugar Cases/Controls Tertile 1 Tertile 2 OR* (95% CI) Tertile 3 OR* (95% CI)1 p for heterogeneity
Added sugars (g/1000 kcal) (Tertile Cutpoints) (<19.92) (19.92–32.24) (>32.24)
Total population 417/395 1.00 1.17 (0.80–1.72) 1.62 (1.09–2.42)
BMI (kg/m2)
  <25 105/189 1.00 0.98 (0.49–1.96) 1.79 (0.90–3.58) 0.71
  ≥ 25 312/206 1.00 1.32 (0.81–2.14) 1.75 (1.04–2.95)
WHR
  <0.85 174/208 1.00 0.91 (0.52–1.59) 1.29 (0.70–2.36) 0.18
  ≥0.85 232/181 1.00 1.83 (1.01–3.30) 2.50 (1.38–4.52)
Physically activity (METs)
  <12,2872.5 261/196 1.00 1.08 (0.63–1.88) 1.48 (0.86–2.55) 0.86
  ≥12,2872.5 154/197 1.00 1.36 (0.76–2.45) 1.64 (0.87–3.08)
  No HRT use 335/291 1.00 1.58 (1.00–2.50) 2.03 (1.27–3.26)

OR: Odds Ratio, CI: Confidence Interval, WHR: waist-to-hip ratio

OR*: adjusted for age (continuous), energy intake (continuous), education (high school or less, college, graduate school), race (White, Black, Other, Hispanic), age at menarche (continuous), menopausal status (premenopausal, postmenopausal) and age at menopause for postmenopausal women (<40, 42–54, ≥ 55, unknown), parity (0–1, 2, 3–4), oral contraceptive use (ever, never), HRT use (never, unopposed estrogen only, any combined HRT), BMI (continuous), smoking status (never, past, current) and pack-years for ever smokers (continuous), physical activity (METs for reported average hours per week of moderate or strenuous recreational activities), and diabetes.