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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 82, Issue 6, Pages 1308-1319Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/82.6.1308
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breast cancer; dietary patterns; nutrition; factor analysis; cohort study
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- NCI NIH HHS [K07CA094984] Funding Source: Medline
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Background: Inconsistent associations have been reported between diet and breast cancer. Objective: We prospectively examined the association between dietary patterns and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in a US-wide cohort study. Design: Data were analyzed from 40 559 women who completed a self-administered 61-item Block food-frequency questionnaire in the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project, 1987-1998; 1868 of those women developed breast cancer. Dietary patterns were defined by using principal components factor analysis. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to assess breast cancer risk. Results: Three major dietary patterns emerged: vegetable-fish/ poultry-fruit, beef/pork-starch, and traditional southern. The vegetable-fish/poultry-fruit pattern was associated with higher education than were the other patterns, but was similar in nutrient intake to the traditional southern pattern. After adjustment for con-founders, there was no significant association between the vegetable-fish/poultry-fruit and beef/pork-starch patterns and breast cancer. The traditional southern pattern, however, was associated with a nonsignificantly reduced breast cancer risk among all cases (in situ and invasive) that was significant for invasive breast cancer (relative hazard = 0.78; 95% CI = 0.65, 0.95; P for trend = 0.003). This diet was also associated with a reduced risk in women without a family history of breast cancer (P = 0.05), who were underweight or normal weight [body mass index (in kg/m(2)) < 25; P = 0.02], or who had tumors positive for estrogen receptor (P = 0.01) or progesterone receptor (P = 0.003). Foods in the traditional southern pattern associated with reduced breast cancer risk were legumes, low mayonnaise-salad dressing intake, and possibly cabbage. Conclusions: The traditional southern diet or its components are associated with a reduced risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
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