Abstract
AbstractThe association between combined healthy lifestyle and postmenopausal breast cancer risk has been studied in various cohort studies, but only few evaluated the association with estrogen/progesterone (ER/PR) receptor subtypes of breast cancer, with inconsistent results. The relationship of a healthy lifestyle score (HLS) with risk of postmenopausal breast cancer (subtypes) was investigated in the Netherlands Cohort Study. In 1986, 62,573 women aged 55–69 years provided information on dietary and lifestyle habits. The HLS was derived from information on smoking, body mass index, physical activity, Mediterranean diet adherence, and alcohol intake. After 20.3 years of follow-up, multivariable case-cohort analyses were based on 2321 incident breast cancer cases, and 1665 subcohort members with complete data on lifestyles and confounders. The HLS showed a statistically significant inverse relationship with postmenopausal breast cancer risk, in a linear fashion. A one-point increment of the HLS was accompanied by a Hazard Ratio (HR) reduction of 20% for overall breast cancer. The associations between HLS and risk of ER/PR breast cancer subtypes were also significantly inverse, except for ER- breast cancer where the inverse association did not reach statistical significance. Per HLS-increment of one point, the HR reduction ranged from 14% for ER-breast cancer to 29% for ER + PR- breast cancer. These findings suggest that adhering to a combination of healthy modifiable lifestyle factors may substantially reduce the risk of overall postmenopausal breast cancer and its hormone receptor subtypes.
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