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Published in: Cancer Causes & Control 7/2010

01-07-2010 | Original paper

Intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence and incidence of proliferative benign breast disease

Authors: Xuefen Su, Rulla M. Tamimi, Laura C. Collins, Heather J. Baer, Eunyoung Cho, Laura Sampson, Walter C. Willett, Stuart J. Schnitt, James L. Connolly, Bernard A. Rosner, Graham A. Colditz

Published in: Cancer Causes & Control | Issue 7/2010

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Abstract

Objective

We examined the association between adolescent fiber intake and proliferative BBD, a marker of increased breast cancer risk, in the Nurses’ Health Study II.

Methods

Among 29,480 women who completed a high school diet questionnaire in 1998, 682 proliferative BBD cases were identified and confirmed by centralized pathology review between 1991 and 2001. Multivariate-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).

Results

Women in the highest quintile of adolescent fiber intake had a 25% lower risk of proliferative BBD (multivariate HR (95% CI): 0.75 (0.59, 0.96), p-trend = 0.01) than women in the lowest quintile. High school intake of nuts was also related to significantly reduced BBD risk. Women consuming ≥2 servings of nuts/week had a 36% lower risk (multivariate HR (95% CI): 0.64 (0.48, 0.85), p-trend < 0.01) than women consuming <1 serving/month. Results were essentially the same when the analysis was restricted to prospective cases (n = 142) diagnosed after return of the high school diet questionnaire.

Conclusions

These findings support the hypothesis that dietary intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence influences subsequent risk of breast disease and may suggest a viable means for breast cancer prevention.
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Metadata
Title
Intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence and incidence of proliferative benign breast disease
Authors
Xuefen Su
Rulla M. Tamimi
Laura C. Collins
Heather J. Baer
Eunyoung Cho
Laura Sampson
Walter C. Willett
Stuart J. Schnitt
James L. Connolly
Bernard A. Rosner
Graham A. Colditz
Publication date
01-07-2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Cancer Causes & Control / Issue 7/2010
Print ISSN: 0957-5243
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7225
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-010-9532-7

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