Table 1.
General characteristics of study participants
| Groups | Healthy Lifestyle Score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases n = 350 | Controls n = 700 | P* | 1 n = 185 | 2 n = 455 | 3 n = 410 | P* | |
| Age (year) | 65 ± 11 | 61 ± 10 | < 0.001 | 64 ± 11 | 62 ± 10 | 62 ± 11 | 0.065 |
| Residing in Urban Region | 126 (36) | 252 (36) | 0.964 | 44 (24) | 150 (33) | 184 (45) | < 0.001 |
| Married | 262 (75) | 616 (88) | < 0.001 | 153 (83) | 382 (84) | 340 (83) | 0.650 |
| Educated | 59 (17) | 203 (29) | < 0.001 | 27 (15) | 100 (22) | 135 (33) | < 0.001 |
| Family History of BC | 31 (9) | 21 (3) | < 0.001 | 16 (9) | 22 (5) | 16 (4) | 0.079 |
| Smoker | 59 (17) | 91 (13) | 0.055 | 86 (47) | 63 (14) | 0 | < 0.001 |
| Post-menopause | 308 (88) | 539 (77) | < 0.001 | 151 (82) | 368 (81) | 328 (80) | 0.930 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 22 ± 5 | 26 ± 5 | < 0.001 | 3 ± 5 | 24 ± 5 | 25 ± 5 | < 0.001 |
| Physical Activity (MET-hr/wk) | 35 ± 7 | 35 ± 7 | 0.196 | 30 ± 6 | 34 ± 7 | 38 ± 5 | < 0.001 |
| Breast Feeding | 119 (34) | 238 (34) | 0.926 | 61 (33) | 145 (32) | 151 (37) | 0.298 |
| Poor Social Economic Status | 115 (33) | 203 (29) | 0.311 | 79 (43) | 150 (33) | 90 (22) | < 0.001 |
| History of Disease | 35 (10) | 63 (9) | 0.407 | 18 (10) | 50 (11) | 24 (6) | 0.026 |
| Supplement Use | 31 (9) | 70 (10) | 0.715 | 20 (11) | 45 (10) | 36 (9) | 0.575 |
Variables: Age, BMI and PA are Means ± SD, other variable values are counts, values between () are %.
* P values were obtained from independent Student’s t test, one-way ANOVA or χ2 test, where appropriate