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. 2018;19(5):1215–1221. doi: 10.22034/APJCP.2018.19.5.1215

Table 4.

Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for the Association between DII and Breast Cancer in an Iranian Case-control Study, 2015-2016 (n=298)

Dietary Inflammatory Index (Tertiles) OR (95% CI) Ptrend-valuea DII (Continuous)bOR (95% CI) P-Value
DII Tertile 1 ≤ -0.46 Tertile 2-0.45 to +0.95 Tertile 3>+0.95
HER 2 receptor +ve cases (61/148) 1 (ref.) 3.27 (0.96, 11.07) 17.42 (4.84, 62.71) <0.0001 2.52 (1.73, 3.67) <0.0001
Progesterone receptor +ve cases (89/148) 1 (ref.) 2.54 (0.98, 6.60) 7.86 (2.87, 21.53) <0.0001 1.87 (1.41, 2.48) <0.0001
Estrogen receptor +ve cases (105/148) 1 (ref.) 2.67 (1.09, 6.52) 8.16 (3.14, 21.19) <0.0001 1.86 (1.43, 2.43) <0.0001
Lymph node invasive case (56/148) 1 (ref.) 6.61 (1.63, 26.77) 43.36 (9.42, 199.55) <0.0001 3.89 (2.36, 6.42) <0.0001
a

P-value for trend derived using the median approach;

b

One unit increase corresponding to ≈34% of its range in the current study;

cAdjusted for age, energy, education, exercise (Mets hr/week), BMI, smoking, family history of cancer, age at menarche, parity, marital status, menopausal status, oral contraceptive use and hormone replacement therapy.