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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Res. 2020 Nov 15;80(22):5134–5143. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-3515

Table 3:

Post-diagnostic fruit juice consumption in relation to mortality after breast cancer diagnosis in NHS and NHSII.

Consumption Levels
Ptrend
Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5

Fruit juices

Median intake, servings/day 0 0.3 0.8 1.5 2.1
Breast cancer-specific mortality
Number of deaths 199 175 215 225 250
 Model 1 1 0.78 (0.64–0.96) 0.94 (0.77–1.14) 0.98 (0.81–1.19) 1.06 (0.88–1.28) 0.05
 Model 2 1 0.97 (0.79–1.19) 1.18 (0.97–1.44) 1.11 (0.91–1.36) 1.33 (1.09–1.63) 0.002

All-cause mortality
Number of deaths 451 432 501 550 579
 Model 1 1 0.91 (0.80–1.04) 0.98 (0.86–1.11) 0.97 (0.86–1.10) 1.03 (0.91–1.17) 0.26
 Model 2 1 0.98 (0.86–1.13) 1.06 (0.93–1.20) 1.05 (0.93–1.20) 1.19 (1.04–1.36) 0.003

Orange juice

Median intake, servings/day 0 0.1 0.4 1.1 1.5
Breast cancer-specific mortality
Number of deaths 196 183 251 194 232
 Model 1 1 0.90 (0.74–1.11) 0.95 (0.79–1.15) 0.88 (0.72–1.07) 0.98 (0.81–1.19) 0.95
 Model 2 1 1.11 (0.90–1.37) 1.07 (0.88–1.29) 1.25 (1.01–1.54) 1.09 (0.89–1.33) 0.31

All-cause mortality
Number of deaths 470 417 559 502 546
 Model 1 1 0.95 (0.83–1.08) 0.95 (0.84–1.07) 0.96 (0.85–1.09) 0.91 (0.80–1.03) 0.25
 Model 2 1 0.99 (0.87–1.14) 0.96 (0.85–1.10) 1.04 (0.91–1.19) 0.98 (0.86–1.11) 0.92

Apple juice

Median intake, servings/day 0 0.04 0.1 0.3
Breast cancer-specific mortality
Number of deaths 612 90 156 182
 Model 1 1 0.58 (0.46–0.73) 1.14 (0.95–1.35) 1.26 (1.07–1.49) 0.0005
 Model 2 1 0.86 (0.68–1.09) 1.14 (0.95–1.36) 1.32 (1.11–1.57) 0.0007

All-cause mortality
Number of deaths 1,481 308 295 387
 Model 1 1 0.97 (0.86–1.10) 1.00 (0.88–1.13) 1.24 (1.11–1.39) 0.0003
 Model 2 1 0.98 (0.86–1.11) 1.03 (0.90–1.17) 1.24 (1.11–1.40) 0.0003

Other juices

Median intake, servings/day 0 0.1 0.2 0.7
Breast cancer-specific mortality
Number of deaths 368 214 206 257
 Model 1 1 0.89 (0.75–1.05) 0.95 (0.80–1.12) 1.14 (0.97–1.34) 0.03
 Model 2 1 0.98 (0.82–1.16) 1.18 (0.99–1.41) 1.31 (1.11–1.55) 0.0004

All-cause mortality
Number of deaths 840 537 504 602
 Model 1 1 1.05 (0.94–1.17) 1.09 (0.98–1.22) 1.18 (1.06–1.31) 0.002
 Model 2 1 1.05 (0.94–1.17) 1.15 (1.02–1.29) 1.25 (1.12–1.39) <0.0001

See table 2 footnote