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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2017 Sep 6;141(12):2450–2461. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31018

Table 2.

Risk of breast cancer and history of hypertension (HBP), high cholesterol, and diabetes in Chinese, Japanese, and Filipina Americans in Los Angeles County

Chinese Japanese Filipina All
Ca Co OR1 (95%CI) Ca Co OR1 (95%CI) Ca Co OR1 (95%CI) OR2 (95%CI)

HBP
No 689 724 1.00 349 362 1.00 468 402 1.00 1.00
Yes 191 161 0.87 (0.66, 1.14) 167 140 0.99 (0.71, 1.37) 303 177 1.34 (1.03, 1.76) 1.11 (0.94, 1.30)
Lagtime4
≤10yrs 120 106 0.86 (0.63, 1.18) 98 83 0.96 (0.66, 1.41) 199 97 1.66 (1.21, 2.28) 1.18 (0.99, 1.42)
>10yrs 71 55 0.89 (0.58, 1.35) 69 57 1.03 (0.66, 1.62) 104 80 0.94 (0.64, 1.36) 0.98 (0.78, 1.23)
P trend5 0.39 0.95 0.43 0.61

High Cholesterol
No 668 723 1.00 330 368 1.00 544 441 1.00 1.00
Yes 212 162 1.21 (0.94, 1.56) 185 134 1.39 (1.02, 1.90) 226 138 1.21 (0.91, 1.60) 1.26 (1.08, 1.47)
Lagtime4
≤10yrs 178 143 1.15 (0.88, 1.50) 146 108 1.42 (1.02, 1.99) 203 117 1.28 (0.96, 1.72) 1.26 (1.07, 1.48)
>10yrs 34 19 1.69 (0.91, 3.14) 39 26 1.28 (0.71, 2.28) 23 21 0.79 (0.41, 1.53) 1.26 (0.89, 1.78)
P trend5 0.076 0.075 0.43 0.006

Diabetes
No 801 821 1.00 463 458 1.00 678 519 1.00 1.00
Yes 78 65 1.11 (0.77, 1.61) 53 44 1.10 (0.68, 1.77) 93 60 1.18 (0.81, 1.73) 1.20 (0.95, 1.50)
Lagtime4
≤10yrs 53 50 0.98 (0.64, 1.50) 31 28 0.99 (0.55, 1.77) 64 45 0.97 (0.63, 1.51) 1.04 (0.80, 1.36)
>10yrs 25 15 1.55 (0.78, 3.06) 22 16 1.32 (0.63, 2.78) 29 15 1.95 (0.97, 3.93) 1.63 (1.10, 2.41)
P trend5 0.36 0.55 0.16 0.033

3 conditions3
None 513 583 1.00 241 270 1.00 352 308 1.00 1.006
1 282 239 1.13 (0.89, 1.42) 169 168 1.02 (0.73, 1.41) 258 188 1.20 (0.91, 1.58) 1.12 (0.96, 1.30)
2 69 57 0.99 (0.65, 1.49) 92 51 1.60 (1.01, 2.54) 130 70 1.42 (0.97, 2.07) 1.42 (1.13, 1.78)
3 16 7 1.64 (0.62, 4.33) 14 13 1.02 (0.42, 2.45) 31 13 1.88 (0.90, 3.93) 1.62 (1.02, 2.57)
P trend5 0.41 0.17 0.021 0.001
Any condition 367 303 1.11 (0.89, 1.39) 275 232 1.12 (0.83, 1.53) 419 271 1.28 (0.99, 1.64) 1.19 (1.03, 1.37)
2 or 3 conditions 85 64 1.06 (0.71, 1.56) 106 64 1.49 (0.96, 2.30) 161 83 1.48 (1.04, 2.13) 1.45 (1.16, 1.80)
Yes treatment 239 191 1.04 (0.80, 1.37) 183 165 1.01 (0.71, 1.43 330 203 1.32 (1.00, 1.74) 1.15 (0.98, 1.36)
No treatment 128 112 1.21 (0.90, 1.63) 92 67 1.32 (0.89, 1.97) 89 68 1.19 (0.81, 1.74) 1.24 (1.02, 1.51)
1

Adjusted for age, education, income, years of residence in the US among non-US born, interviewer, family history of breast cancer, benign breast diseases, parity, age at menarche, age at and type of menopause, education and body mass index.

2

As above and also adjusted for Asian ethnicity,

3

Included HBP, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Yes treatment means for any 1 of the 3 conditions; no treatment means no for all 3 conditions.

4

Lagtime is defined as years between first diagnosis of metabolic condition and breast cancer diagnosis.

5

For the p trend analyses, the baseline group comprised those with no metabolic condition.

6

There were no changes in ORs with further adjustment for alcohol intake (never, former and current) for none, 1, 2, 3 conditions combined (ORs were 1.00, 1.12 (0.96, 1.30), 1.42 (1.13, 1.78) and 1.62 (1.02, 2.57), respectively).