Table 4.
Association of Endometrial Cancer Risk Factors With Type I and Type II Tumors
| Risk Factor | No. of Controls | Cases |
P heterogeneity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type I* |
Type II† |
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| No. of Cases | OR‡ | 95% CI | No. of Cases | OR‡ | 95% CI | |||
| Mean age at diagnosis, years | 12,853 | 62.7 | 854 | 64.8 | < .0001 | |||
| Body mass index, kg/m2 | ||||||||
| < 25 | 18,400 | 4,602 | 1.00 | 330 | 1.00 | |||
| 25 to < 30 | 10,986 | 3,718 | 1.45 | 1.37 to 1.53 | 253 | 1.16 | 0.98 to 1.38 | |
| 30 to < 35 | 4,078 | 2,294 | 2.52 | 2.35 to 2.69 | 159 | 1.73 | 1.40 to 2.12 | |
| 35 to < 40 | 1,255 | 1,247 | 4.45 | 4.05 to 4.89 | 65 | 2.15 | 1.60 to 2.88 | |
| ≥ 40 | 593 | 992 | 7.14 | 6.33 to 8.06 | 47 | 3.11 | 2.19 to 4.44 | |
| P trend | < .0001 | < .0001 | < .0001 | |||||
| Body mass index, per 2 kg/m2 | 35,312 | 12,853 | 1.20 | 1.19 to 1.21 | 854 | 1.12 | 1.09 to 1.14 | < .0001 |
| Age at menarche, years | ||||||||
| < 11 | 1,633 | 844 | 1.00 | 68 | 1.00 | |||
| 11-12 | 7,332 | 2,832 | 0.89 | 0.80 to 0.99 | 220 | 0.67 | 0.50 to 0.90 | |
| 13-14 | 21,563 | 7,528 | 0.85 | 0.77 to 0.94 | 466 | 0.62 | 0.47 to 0.82 | |
| ≥ 15 | 4,784 | 1,649 | 0.71 | 0.63 to 0.80 | 100 | 0.50 | 0.35 to 0.70 | |
| P trend | < .0001 | .0002 | .11 | |||||
| Parity | ||||||||
| 0 | 4,593 | 2,451 | 1.00 | 150 | 1.00 | |||
| 1 | 4,528 | 1,999 | 0.74 | 0.68 to 0.81 | 121 | 0.84 | 0.65 to 1.09 | |
| 2 | 10,147 | 3,728 | 0.67 | 0.63 to 0.72 | 250 | 0.67 | 0.54 to 0.83 | |
| 3 | 12,119 | 3,686 | 0.56 | 0.52 to 0.60 | 231 | 0.56 | 0.45 to 0.70 | |
| ≥ 4 | 3925 | 989 | 0.40 | 0.36 to 0.44 | 102 | 0.54 | 0.41 to 0.72 | |
| P trend | < .0001 | < .0001 | .31 | |||||
| Oral contraceptive use | ||||||||
| Never | 20,785 | 8,011 | 1.00 | 497 | 1.00 | |||
| Ever | 14,527 | 4,842 | 0.73 | 0.69 to 0.77 | 357 | 0.74 | 0.62 to 0.89 | .17 |
| Cigarette smoking§ | ||||||||
| Never | 18,815 | 7,692 | 1.00 | 532 | 1.00 | |||
| Former | 10,900 | 3,648 | 0.87 | 0.82 to 0.91 | 227 | 0.70 | 0.59 to 0.83 | .11 |
| Current | 5,152 | 1,126 | 0.64 | 0.60 to 0.70 | 80 | 0.60 | 0.46 to 0.77 | .79 |
| Pack-years of smoking‖ | ||||||||
| Never | 13,693 | 5,646 | 1.00 | 367 | 1.00 | |||
| < 20 | 5,383 | 1,639 | 0.86 | 0.80 to 0.92 | 106 | 0.69 | 0.55 to 0.87 | |
| ≥ 20 | 3,594 | 1,109 | 0.71 | 0.65 to 0.77 | 69 | 0.68 | 0.52 to 0.90 | |
| P trend | < .0001 | .0006 | .44 | |||||
| Diabetes¶ | ||||||||
| No | 26,575 | 8,520 | 1.00 | 472 | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 2,077 | 1,402 | 1.27 | 1.17 to 1.38 | 104 | 1.53 | 1.19 to 1.95 | .14 |
Abbreviation: OR, odds ratio.
Type I included endometrioid adenocarcinoma, adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified, and adenocarcinoma with squamous differentiation.
Type II included serous and mixed cell adenocarcinoma.
Stratified by age, study and race/ethnicity and mutually adjusted for BMI, age at menarche, parity, oral contraceptive use, menopausal status, menopausal hormone use, and smoking status.
Based on 23 studies with smoking data.
Based on 18 studies with pack-years of smoking data.
Based on 19 studies with diabetes data.