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Table 2 Multivariate-adjusted OR estimates and corresponding 95% CIs of postmenopausal breast cancer for somatotype at age seven years, overall and stratified by breast cancer tumour subtype based on ER and PR status

From: Effects of childhood body size on breast cancer tumour characteristics

Type of breast cancer

Somatotype

All subjects

  

Cases

OR

95% CI

Ptrend*

All data

Lean

1784

1.00

reference

0.004

 

Medium

757

0.90

0.79

1.02

 
 

Large

173

0.73

0.58

0.91

 

ER positive

Lean

963

1.00

reference

0.062

 

Medium

408

0.91

0.78

1.06

 
 

Large

98

0.80

0.62

1.05

 

ER negative

Lean

219

1.00

reference

0.002

 

Medium

81

0.77

0.58

1.03

 
 

Large

14

0.40

0.21

0.75

 

PR positive

Lean

841

1.00

reference

0.027

 

Medium

354

0.89

0.75

1.04

 
 

Large

83

0.76

0.57

1.00

 

PR negative

Lean

320

1.00

reference

0.028

 

Medium

126

0.86

0.68

1.08

 
 

Large

25

0.63

0.40

0.99

 
  1. * Logistic regression models were used, accounting for age, age at menarche, benign breast disease and recent body mass index. CI, confidence interval; ER, estrogen receptor; OR, odds ratio; PR, progesterone receptor.