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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2018 Feb 26;11(6):317–326. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-17-0347

Table 2.

Associations between healthy lifestyle score and risk of breast cancer among women from the Women’s Health Initiative Study, 1993–2016

Quintiles
≤9 10–11 12–13 14–15 ≥16
No. of cases HR (95% Cl) No. of cases HR (95% Cl) No. of cases HR (95% Cl) No. of cases HR (95% Cl) No. of cases HR (95% Cl) Ptrend Phetero-geneitv Continuous (per unit Increase In score)
All breast cancer cases 1,825 1.00 1,662 0.93 (0.87–1.00) 1,761 0.85 (0.80–0.91) 1,746 0.75 (0.70–0.81) 1,369 0.70 (0.64–0.76) <0.01 0.96 (0.95–0.97)
Receptor status
 ER+/PR+ 1,233 1.00 1,085 0.89 (0.82–0.97) 1,167 0.82 (0.76–0.89) 896 0.72 (0.65–0.78) 659 0.63 (0.57–0.69) <0.01 0.95 (0.94–0.96)
 ER+/PR− 205 1.00 213 1.05 (0.87–1.28) 204 0.87 (0.71–1.06) 197 0.95 (0.78–1.16) 159 0.92 (0.74–1.14) 0.26 0.99 (0.97–1.01)
 ER−/PR− 212 1.00 202 1.03 (0.85–1.25) 222 1.02 (0.84–1.24) 159 0.85 (0.69–1.05) 133 0.86 (0.69–1.09) 0.09 0.40 0.98 (0.96–1.01)
HER2
 Positive 191 1.00 176 0.95 (0.78–1.17) 166 0.78 (0.63–0.96) 141 0.75 (0.60–0.94) 112 0.70 (0.55–0.90) <0.01 0.95 (0.93–0.98)
 Negative 1,197 1.00 1,081 0.92 (0.85–1.00) 1,162 0.86 (0.79–0.93) 895 0.75 (0.69–0.82) 665 0.67 (0.60–0.73) <0.01 0.47 0.96 (0.95–0.97)
Triple negative 125 1.00 118 1.02 (0.79–1.32) 139 1.08 (0.85–1.39) 93 0.85 (0.64–1.12) 71 0.78 (0.58–1.07) 0.07 0.96 (0.95–1.00)
Positive lymph node
 Yes 629 1.00 563 0.92 (0.82–1.03) 555 0.79 (0.71–0.89) 444 0.73 (0.64–0.82) 368 0.73 (0.64–0.83) <0.01 0.96 (0.95–0.98)
 No 1,172 1.00 1,083 0.94 (0.87–1.02) 1,174 0.88 (0.81–0.96) 913 0.77 (0.71–0.85) 690 0.70 (0.63–0.77) <0.01 0.29 0.96 (0.95–0.97)
Grade
 Well-differentiated 443 1.00 418 0.94 (0.82–1.07) 490 0.93 (0.82–1.07) 377 0.80 (0.70–0.92) 272 0.68 (0.58–0.80) <0.01 0.95 (0.95–0.98)
 Moderately differentiated 731 1.00 706 0.98 (0.88–1.09) 707 0.85 (0.76–0.94) 556 0.76 (0.67–0.85) 470 0.76 (0.67–0.86) <0.01 0.97 (0.95–0.98)
 Poorly differentiated 433 1.00 367 0.90 (0.78–1.03) 382 0.83 (0.72–0.95) 300 0.75 (0.64–0.87) 208 0.63 (0.53–0.75) <0.01 0.29 0.96 (0.94–0.97)
Stage
 Local 1,305 1.00 1,215 0.94 (0.87–1.02) 1,302 0.87 (0.80–0.94) 1,040 0.79 (0.72–0.85) 790 0.71 (0.65–0.78) <0.01 0.97 (0.96–0.97)
 Regional/distant metastatic 471 1.00 420 0.94 (0.82–1.07) 412 0.81 (0.71–0.93) 302 0.68 (0.59–0.79) 252 0.69 (0.59–0.81) <0.01 0.69 0.96 (0.94–0.97)

NOTE: Adjusted for age at entry, education, nonalcohol energy intake, ethnicity, age at menarche, parity, breastfeed, history of mammograms, HT status, oral contraceptive use, age at menopause, family history, and history of BBD.