American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 8 : 740-747
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Exploring the Relation of Alcohol Consumption to Risk of Breast Cancer
From the Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
There are lingering questions regarding the relation between alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in women. The authors performed a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies carried out through 1999 to examine the dose-response relation and to assess whether effect estimates differed according to various study characteristics. Overall, there was a monotonic increase in the relative risk of breast cancer with alcohol consumption, but the magnitude of the effect was small; in comparison with nondrinkers, women averaging 12 g/day of alcohol consumption (approximately one typical drink) had a relative risk of 1.10 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06, 1.14). Estimates of relative risk were 7% greater in hospital-based case-control studies than in cohort studies or community-based case-control studies, 3% greater in studies published before 1990 than in studies published later, and 5% greater in studies conducted outside of the United States than in US studies. The findings of five US cohort studies published since 1990 yielded a relative risk of 1.06 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.11) for consumers of 12 g/day, as compared with nondrinkers. Cohort studies with less than 10 years of follow-up gave estimates 11% higher than cohort studies with longer follow-up periods. No meaningful difference was seen by menopausal status or type of beverage consumed.
alcohol drinking; breast neoplasms; meta-analysis
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval
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