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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2021 Apr 27;149(3):615–626. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33581

Table 4.

Association between the combination of dietary inflammatory index and dietary oxidative balance score and risk of breast cancer

Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative diet Either Pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidative diet
Person-years 88150 186407 91857
Total breast cancer No. of cases 615 1365 639
Model 1, HR (95%CI)1 1 (ref) 1.11 (1.01–1.22) 1.13 (1.01–1.27)
Model 2, HR (95%CI)2 1 (ref) 1.10 (1.00–1.21) 1.13 (1.00–1.27)
ER+ breast cancer No. of cases 473 1047 441
Model 1, HR (95%CI)1 1 (ref) 1.11 (1.00–1.24) 1.03 (0.89–1.17)
Model 2, HR (95%CI)2 1 (ref) 1.11 (0.99–1.24) 1.05 (0.91–1.21)
ER− breast cancer No. of cases 71 169 91
Model 1, HR (95%CI)1 1 (ref) 1.16 (0.87–1.53) 1.34 (0.96–1.85)*
Model 2, HR (95%CI)2 1 (ref) 1.16 (0.88–1.54) 1.39 (1.00–1.93)*
Triple– breast cancer No. of cases 34 91 57
Model 1, HR (95%CI)1 1 (ref) 1.29 (0.87–1.93) 1.70 (1.08–2.66)
Model 2, HR (95%CI)2 1 (ref) 1.29 (0.87–1.91) 1.72 (1.10–2.70)

Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative diet corresponds to DII tertile 1 & D-OBS tertile 3; Pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidative diet corresponds to DII tertile 3 & D-OBS tertile 1

1

Adjusted for age (age as the primary time scale)

2

Adjusted for race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, or other than White or Black), educational attainment (high school degree or less, some college, or college degree or higher), baseline menopausal status (binary), body mass index (BMI, continuous), interaction term between baseline menopausal status and BMI, physical activity (MET-hours/week, quintiles), smoking status (≥20 pack-years, <20 and ≥10 pack-years, <10 and >0 pack-years, or never smoker), ever use of hormonal birth control, hormone therapy (none, estrogen only, or both estrogen and progesterone), recent mammogram screening (<1, 1–2, or > 2 years or never had a mammogram), number of first-degree relatives diagnosed with breast cancer before age 50 years (0, 1, or ≥2), use of aspirin (never, tertiles of lifetime cumulative doses, or missing), and use of non-aspirin NSAIDS (never, tertiles of lifetime cumulative doses, or missing).

*

HR for ER- BC was significantly different from ER+ breast cancer in case–case analysis (P<0.05).

Abbreviation: HR, hazard ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; ER, estrogen receptor; +, positive; −, negative.