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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 141, No. 9: 845-849
Copyright © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Adult Height and Risk of Breast Cancer among US Black Women

Julie R. Palmer1,, Lynn Rosenberg1, Susan Hartap2, Brian L. Strom3, M. Ellen Warshauer4, Ann G. Zauber2 and Samuel Shapiro1

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

Reprint requests to Dr. Julie R. Palmer, Stone Epidemiology Unit, 1371 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146.

Adult height has been positively associated with the risk of breast cancer in a number of recent investigations. The authors assessed height in relation to breast cancer risk in a case-control study of US black women aged 25–69 years; 674 hospital patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer and 1,155 controls hospitalized for nonmalignant conditions unrelated to height were interviewed. After control for multiple confounders, the relative risk estimate for women <61 inches (<154.9 cm) tall was 0.5 (95% confidence interval (Cl) 0.3–0.7) relative to the median height of 64–65 inches (162.6–165.1 cm). Among women ≥61 inches (≥154.9 cm) tail, there was little indication of any variation in risk with increasing height. The findings suggest that short stature associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer in US black women. Am J Epidemiol 1995;141:845–9.

blacks; body height; breast neoplasms; risk factors


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