Table 3 Odds ratios (ORs) (95% confidence intervals (CIs)) of breast cancer prevalence for a 1 s.d. increase in height, leg length and trunk length, with separate results for premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer

From: Associations of adult measures of childhood growth with breast cancer: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study

 

Age-adjusted OR (95% CI)

Age, lifestyle and reproductive factor adjusted a OR (95% CI)

Age, lifestyle, reproductive factor and lifecourse socioeconomic position adjusted b OR (95% CI)

Premenopausal cancers, n=28

Height

0.95 (0.66, 1.37)

0.98 (0.68, 1.40)

0.99 (0.69, 1.41)

Leg length

0.93 (0.65, 1.33)

0.94 (0.65, 1.34)

0.95 (0.66, 1.46)

Trunk length

0.99 (0.68, 1.42)

1.00 (0.69, 1.42)

1.00 (0.69, 1.43)

Postmenopausal cancers, n=117

Height

1.32 (1.09, 1.61)

1.33 (1.09, 1.62)

1.31 (1.07, 1.61)

Leg length

1.19 (0.99, 1.44)

1.23 (1.01, 1.49)

1.21 (1.00, 1.48)

Trunk length

1.29 (1.07, 1.55)

1.26 (1.04, 1.52)

1.23 (1.01, 1.51)

  1. All analyses included in the table are based only on those with complete data for all variables in final model. For premenopausal cancers, n=3437 with 28 premenopausal breast cancer cases; for postmenopausal cancers, n=3526 with 117 postmenopausal breast cancer cases. Women with premenopausal cancers compared to all women without any cancer. Women with postmenopausal cancers compared to all women without any cancer.
  2. a,bSee Table 2.
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