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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2018 Aug 7;143(9):2225–2237. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31608

Table 1.

Socio-demographic Characteristics and Fatty Intakes of Study Participants

Characteristic SMHS
SWHS
(never smoking women only)
Cases
(n=782)
Non-cases
(n=56,112)
P-value Cases
(n=714)
Non-cases
(n=64,362)
P-value
Categorical Variables n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Ever smoking 667 (85.3) 39,067 (69.6) <0.0001 - - -
Ever drinking 336 (43.0) 18,769 (33.4) <0.0001 13 (1.8) 1,252 (1.9) 0.81
Smoking packs-year (Mean±SD) 34.9±17.9 22.3±17.3 <0.0001 - - -
 0 115 (14.7) 17,045 (30.4) <0.0001 - - -
 1-31 333 (42.6) 29,866 (53.2) - - -
 ≥32 334 (42.7) 9,201 (16.4) - - -
BMI (kg/m2) (Mean±SD) 23.2±3.3 23.7±3.1 <0.0001 24.3±3.5 24.0±3.4 0.01
 BMI<25 551 (70.5) 37,666 (67.1) 0.05 441 (61.8) 42,250 (65.6) 0.03
 BMI≥25 231 (29.5) 18,446 (32.9) 273 (38.2) 22,112 (34.4)
Vitamin supplemental use 123 (15.7) 8,355 (14.9) 0.52 149 (20.9) 12,554 (19.5) 0.36
Post-menopausal - - - 500 (70.0) 30,273 (47.0) <0.0001
Regular hormone replacement therapy use - - - 27 (3.8) 2,343 (3.6) 0.11
Physical activity 305 (39.0) 19,112 (34.7) 0.01 298 (41.7) 22,171 (34.4) <0.0001

Continuous Variables (Mean±SD) (Mean±SD) P-value (Mean±SD) (Mean±SD) P-value

Follow-up time 4.6±2.6 8.4±1.5 <0.0001 8.3±4.0 13.9±1.8 <0.0001
Age at baseline 61.5±9.4 55.8±9.5 <0.0001 57.2±8.9 52.0±8.9 <0.0001
Total fatty acid (g/d) 34.2±17.0 34.7±16.1 0.42 28.0±13.3 29.7±13.5 0.0005
Saturated fatty acid (g/d) 10.1±5.3 10.3±5.0 0.39 8.0±4.1 8.6±4.2 0.0003
Monounsaturated fatty acid (g/d) 15.1±8.3 15.3±7.9 0.58 12.1±6.3 12.9±6.4 0.0003
Polyunsaturated fatty acid (g/d) 8.5±4.1 8.6±3.8 0.28 7.4±3.7 7.7±3.5 0.03
Linoleic acid (g/d) 7.1±3.4 7.2±3.2 0.35 6.2±3.1 6.4±3.0 0.05
Linolenic acid (g/d) 1.0±0.5 1.1±0.5 0.08 0.9±0.5 0.9±0.4 0.03
Arachidonic acid (g/d) 0.05±0.03 0.05±0.03 0.17 0.05±0.03 0.05±0.03 <0.0001
Timnodonic acid-EPA (g/d) 0.03±0.03 0.03±0.03 0.11 0.03±0.03 0.03±0.03 0.12
Docosahexaenoic acid-DHA (g/d) 0.07±0.08 0.07±0.08 0.22 0.06±0.07 0.07±0.07 0.26
Total n-3 PUFAs (g/d) 1.1±0.6 1.2±0.5 0.06 1.0±0.5 1.0±0.5 0.02
Total n-3 HUFAs (g/d) 0.1±0.1 0.1±0.1 0.20 0.09±0.1 0.1±0.1 0.19
Total n-6 PUFAs (g/d) 7.1±3.4 7.2±3.2 0.35 6.2±3.1 6.5±3.0 0.04
Total energy intake (Kcal/d)a 1,836.0±479.4 1,911.3±476.5 0.02 1,647.3±374.7 1,676.1±391.0 0.43
Red meat intake (g/d)b 61.5±44.5 63.1±43.6 0.0002 47.0±33.5 51.2±35.9 0.68
Fish intake (g/d)b 48.9±46.8 52.0±46.3 0.13 48.0±42.2 51.1±44.5 0.32
Vegetable intake (g/d)b 316.6±185.6 345.0±192.8 0.01 290.2±174.5 296.9±168.7 0.73
Peanuts intake (g/d)b 2.7±6.5 2.4±4.4 0.08 1.6±3.5 1.6±3.4 0.52
Soy intake (g/d)b 148.5±109.8 156.1±118.1 0.05 142.8±126.0 139.6±122.4 0.60
a

Adjusted for age at baseline;

b

Adjusted for age at baseline and total energy intake

Abbreviation: PUFA-polyunsaturated fatty acid; HUFA-highly unsaturated fatty acid.