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Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Nov 21;174(1):209–218. doi: 10.1007/s10549-018-5056-8

Table 4.

Hazard ratios (HRs)^a and 95% confidence intervals for the association of combinations of MetS components with breast cancer mortality

	Overall	Post-menopausal
N (Deaths)^b	94,555 (607)	90,662 (592)
High blood pressure, fasting glucose, and WC	1.59 (0.84, 3.02)	1.72 (1.05, 2.83)
High cholesterol, fasting glucose, and WC	0.52 (0.07, 3.75)	1.40 (0.66, 2.95)
High blood pressure, fasting glucose, and cholesterol	1.87 (0.82, 4.27)	1.72 (0.97, 3.05)
High blood pressure, cholesterol, and WC	1.55 (0.94, 2.55)	1.27 (0.86, 1.87)

Models are adjusted for age, BMI, region,race,physical activity,smoking, and marital status.

Abbreviation: MetS, metabolic syndrome; WC, waist circumference.

Death = number of breast cancer deaths; N=sample size

Bold indicates a statistically significant value.