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21 February 1992

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15 November 1992

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Susan M. Gapstur, John D. Potter, Thomas A. Sellers, Aaron R. Folsom, Increased Risk of Breast Cancer with Alcohol Consumption in Postmenopausal Women, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 136, Issue 10, 15 November 1992, Pages 1221–1231, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116430
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Abstract

The association between breast cancer incidence and alcohol consumption among postmenopausal women was examined in the lowa Women‘s Health Study. In January 1986, a cohort of 41, 837 postmenopausal women, aged 55–69 years, completed a questionnaire that included alcohol intake and other information. Through December 1989, 493 incident breast cancer cases were identified. Age-adjusted relative risks of consumption of less than 1.5, 1.5–4.9, 5.0–14.9, and 15.0g or more of alcohol per day compared with abstention were 1.08, 1.10, 1.08, and 1.28, respectively (p for trend = 0.11). After controlling for age, body mass index, age at first livebirth, age at menarche, and family history of breast cancer, the relative risks were 1.18, 1.20, 1.25, and 1.46 (p for trend = 0.04). Multivariate modeling, using Cox proportional hazards regression, reveated a significant multiplicative interaction between alcohol intake and noncontraceptive estrogen use. The relative risks of breast cancer associated with average daily alcohol consumption of 5.0–14.9 and 15.0g or more were 1.88 (95% confidence interval 1.30–2.72) and 1.83 (95% confidence interval 1.18–2.85), respectively, among ever-users of estrogen; no association between alcohol and breast cancer was observed among neverusers of estrogen. Am J Epidemiol 1992; 136: 1221–31

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Topic:

• ethanol
• body mass index procedure
• survival analysis
• estrogen
• alcohol drinking
• menarche
• postmenopause
• breast cancer
• women's health study
• breast cancer risk

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