Table 4.
Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between latent classes and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal and premenopausal white women at time of breast cancer diagnosis.
Exposure | Premenopausal | Postmenopausal | Interaction p-Valued | ||||||
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Person-years | BC eventsa | HR (95% CI)b | adjHR (95% CI)c | Person-years | BC eventsa | HR (95% CI)b | adjHR (95% CI)c | ||
Beauty Classes | |||||||||
Infrequent user | 6,834 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 53,247 | 372 | 1 | 1 | |
Moderate user | 19,586 | 177 | 0.99 (0.75, 1.30) | 0.98 (0.74, 1.30) | 84,289 | 631 | 1.13 (1.10, 1.16) | 1.16 (1.12, 1.19) | 0.26 |
Frequent user | 19,861 | 191 | 1.01 (0.77, 1.33) | 1.01 (0.76, 1.33) | 90,181 | 656 | 1.14 (1.10, 1.17) | 1.18 (1.14, 1.21) | 0.33 |
Totalse | 46,281 | 442 | 227,717 | 1,659 | |||||
Hair Classes | |||||||||
Infrequent users of hair spray | 21,377 | 208 | 1 | 1 | 115,014 | 841 | 1 | 1 | |
Moderate users of hair spray, conditioner, pomade and hair straightener | 443 | 4 | — | — | 7,190 | 56 | 0.76 (0.71, 0.81) | 0.76 (0.71, 0.81) | 0.46 |
Frequent users of hair spray and hair gel | 24,277 | 229 | 1.07 (0.89, 1.29) | 1.04 (0.86, 1.26) | 103,825 | 757 | 1.01 (0.99, 1.03) | 1.03 (1.01, 1.06) | 0.84 |
Totalse | 46,097 | 441 | 226,029 | 1,654 | |||||
Skincare Classes | |||||||||
Infrequent user | 8,266 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 43,793 | 324 | 1 | 1 | |
Moderate user | 20,031 | 200 | 1.09 (0.84, 1.42) | 1.06 (0.81, 1.39) | 101,807 | 721 | 1.05 (1.02, 1.08) | 1.08 (1.05, 1.12) | 0.51 |
Frequent user | 13,152 | 122 | 1.07 (0.80, 1.42) | 1.06 (0.79, 1.42) | 52,621 | 420 | 1.11 (1.07, 1.14) | 1.12 (1.09, 1.16) | 0.65 |
Talcum powder user | 4,853 | 44 | 0.88 (0.61, 1.29) | 0.84 (0.57, 1.23) | 29,453 | 195 | 0.99 (0.95, 1.03) | 1.03 (0.99, 1.07) | 0.91 |
Totalse | 46,302 | 442 | 227,674 | 1,660 |
Note: adjHR, adjusted hazard ratio; BC, breast cancer; CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.
Total numbers of BC events and person-years are for women with complete data for each product class; after accounting for missing data, among women with known menopausal status, total numbers of person-years and BC events were 47,166 and 445, respectively, for premenopausal white women and 230,023 and 1,679, respectively, for postmenopausal white women; results were not reported if events.
Models accounted for age by using age as the time scale, where participants entered the analysis at their enrollment age (left-truncation) and accrued person-time until they exited at their cancer diagnosis or were administratively censored at their age at last follow-up.
In addition to the adjustments described in b, models were adjusted for baseline menopausal status, parity, age at first live birth, duration of breastfeeding, adult body mass index, alcohol use, oral contraceptive use, hormone therapy use, education, family history, region of residence, age at menarche, and smoking status. Results were not reported if events.
p-Value for interaction by menopausal status, derived by adding interaction term to adjusted Cox proportional hazard model for pre- and postmenopausal white women.
Women with unknown or missing menopausal status at follow-up () were excluded; breast cancer cases were premenopausal at baseline and had an unknown menopausal status at follow-up.