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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 143, No. 11: 1123-1128
Copyright © 1996 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Adult Height and Risk of Breast Cancer among White Women in a Case-Control Study

Yuqing Zhang1, Lynn Rosenberg2, Theodore Colton1, L Adrienne Cupples1, Julie R. Palmer2, Brian L Strom3, Ann G. Zauber4, M. Ellen Warshauer5, Susan Harlap4 and Samuel Shapiro2

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University Boston, MA
2Slone Epidemiology Unit, School of Medicine, Boston University Brookline, MA
3Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Stoan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
5Cancer Care and Research Program, New York Hospital, and Department of Public Health, Cornell Medical Center New York, NY

Data from a hospital-based case-control study were analyzed to evaluate the relation of adult height to the risk of breast cancer among white women. The authors compared 5, 358 newly diagnosed breast cancer cases and 4, 555 controls interviewed from 1976 to 1992 in hospitals located mainly in the United States. Overall, there was no association between stature and nsk of breast cancer. In comparison with women whose heights were less than 62 inches (< 158 cm), the adjusted odds ratios were 1.1 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.9–1.2), 1.0 (95% CI 0.9–1.2), 1.0 (95% CI 0.9–1.1), and 1.0 (95% CI 0.8–1.2) for women with heights of 62–63, 64–65, 66–67, and ≥68 inches (equivalent to 158–160, 163–165, 168–170, and ≥173cm), respectively. There was no consistent evidence of modification of the effect of height by other risk factors. The results suggest that adult stature in white women is not related to the risk of breast cancer. Am J Epidemiol 1996; 143: 1123–8.

body height; breast neoplasms; contraceptives; oral


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