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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2014 Feb 5;120(10):1548–1556. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28601

Table 3.

Association of BMI change and ER+ breast cancer risk stratified by parity.

Controls Cases
Pheterongeneity
(n=927)
ER−/PR−/HER2− (n=181)
ER+a (n=772)
n % n % ORc 95%CI n % ORc 95%CI
Nulliparous (never had a live birth)
    BMI change from age 18 to reference (kg/m2)
        <5.0 112 59% 30 60% 1.0 Ref 154 74% 1.0 Ref
        5.0-<10.0 48 25% 16 32% 1.3 0.6-2.6 38 18% 0.5b 0.3-0.9
        ≥10.0 29 15% 4 8% 0.5 0.2-1.5 15 7% 0.3b 0.2-0.6
Ptrend 0.4 <0.001 0.08
        Continuous (kg/m2) 0.97 0.91-1.04 0.93 0.89-0.97
Parous (ever had a live birth)
    BMI change from age 18 to reference (kg/m2)
        <5.0 433 59% 64 49% 1.0 Ref 342 61% 1.0 Ref
        5.0-<10.0 211 29% 36 27% 1.2 0.8-1.9 148 26% 0.9 0.7-1.2
        ≥10.0 94 13% 31 24% 2.1b 1.3-3.4 75 13% 1.0 0.7-1.4
Ptrend 0.008 0.7 0.0045
        Continuous (kg/m2) 1.06 1.02-1.10 1.00 0.97-1.02
Pinteraction 0.11 0.002
a

Regardless of PR/HER2 status.

b

P < 0.05.

c

ORs are adjusted by age at reference, reference year, race/etnicity.