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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Dec;17(12):3319–3324. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0544

Table 5. Univariate analysis of BMI as a continuous variable.

Category BMI ± SE (kg/m2) P
Histologic subtype
 Ductal 29.60 ± 0.35 0.0192
 Nonductal 28.12 ± 0.80
Receptor status
 Triple-negative 30.49 ± 0.67 0.0157
 Non-triple-negative 28.81 ± 0.41
Tumor size
 T1 (<2 cm) 28.66 ± 0.50 0.0368
 T2 (2-5 cm) 30.01 ± 0.61*
 T3 (>5 cm) 27.95 ± 1.07
Node status
 Negative 28.61 ± 0.49 0.2334
 Positive 29.42 ± 1.64
Histologic grade
 1 28.65 ± 0.47 0.1215
 2 29.97 ± 0.72
 3 28.78 ± 2.63
 4 26.19 ± 2.85
*

Mean for T2 is significantly higher than the means for T1 and T3.