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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2015 Oct 1;26(12):1803–1811. doi: 10.1007/s10552-015-0673-6

Table 1.

HRs for overall mortality associated with BMI and WHR, in the CBCS Phases I and II

Variable Deaths/N Model 1
HR (95 % CI)
Model 2
HR (95 % CI)
Model 3
HR (95 % CI)
BMI
All BC patients
 <25 kg/m2 129/395 1 1 1
 25 to <30 kg/m2 125/308 1.28 (0.98, 1.68) 1.17 (0.89, 1.55) 1.14 (0.86, 1.50)
 ≥30 kg/m2 184/411 1.19 (0.91, 1.55) 1.07 (0.81, 1.41) 1.11 (0.84, 1.45)
Basal-like
 <25 kg/m2 16/53 1 1 1
 25 to <30 kg/m2 27/62 1.90 (0.93, 3.85) 2.04 (0.95, 4.37) 1.65 (0.79, 3.45)
 ≥30 kg/m2 41/83 2.25 (1.14, 4.46) 2.73 (1.28, 5.80) 2.04 (1.01, 4.13)
Luminal
 <25 kg/m2 84/268 1 1 1
 25 to <30 kg/m2 80/198 1.33 (0.95, 1.85) 1.14 (0.80, 1.62) 1.24 (0.88, 1.74)
 ≥30 kg/m2 111/251 1.12 (0.80, 1.57) 0.91 (0.63, 1.31) 1.01 (0.71, 1.44)
WHR
All BC patients
 <0.77 79/284 1 1 1
 0.77 to <0.84 142/389 1.25 (0.92, 1.68) 1.24 (0.91, 1.68) 1.08 (0.79, 1.47)
 ≥0.84 221/451 1.50 (1.11, 2.05) 1.44 (1.04, 1.99) 1.25 (0.91, 1.72)
Basal-like
 <0.77 13/36 1 1 1
 0.77 to <0.84 37/81 1.43 (0.69, 2.93) 0.95 (0.44, 2.05) 1.26 (0.61, 2.62)
 ≥0.84 34/83 0.88 (0.40, 1.95) 0.52 (0.22, 1.23) 0.87 (0.39, 1.93)
Luminal
 <0.77 53/201 1 1 1
 0.77 to <0.84 77/240 1.09 (0.74, 1.60) 1.10 (0.75, 1.63) 0.89 (0.60, 1.33)
 ≥0.84 148/282 1.75 (1,20, 2.56) 1.79 (1.20, 2.68) 1.33 (0.89, 1.97)

Model 1 was adjusted for age, race, study phase, income, education, physical activity, alcohol intake, smoking, and parity; model 2 was additionally adjusted for WHR (in model of BMI) or BMI (in model of WHR); model 3 was adjusted for tumor stage, tumor size, lymph node status, histological-type, and variables in model 1