Skip to main content

Table 3 Estimated differencesa (95% confidence interval) in square-root-transformed percent mammographic density by distance to roadways.

From: Residential particulate matter and distance to roadways in relation to mammographic density: results from the Nurses’ Health Studies

 

n

Premenopausal

p for region interaction term

n

Postmenopausal

p for region interaction term

Distance to A1 roads

  ≥ 200 meters

1576

Referent

0.95

1598

Referent

0.001

  < 200 meters

47

–0.25 (–0.65, 0.15)

 

36

0.10 (–0.39, 0.60)

 

p value

 

0.22

  

0.68

 

Distance to A1–A2 roads

  

0.90

  

0.48

  ≥ 200 meters

1500

Referent

 

1510

Referent

 

 50–199 meters

87

–0.13 (–0.43, 0.16)

 

84

–0.03 (–0.35, 0.30)

 

  < 50 meters

36

0.06 (–0.39, 0.51)

 

40

–0.12 (–0.59, 0.35)

 

p trend

 

0.65

  

0.88

 

Distance to A1–A3 roads

  

0.43

  

0.47

  ≥ 200 meters

978

Referent

 

936

Referent

 

 50–199 meters

413

–0.05 (–0.21, 0.11)

 

431

–0.16 (–0.33, 0.01)

 

  < 50 meters

232

0.03 (–0.17, 0.23)

 

267

–0.11 (–0.31, 0.10)

 

p trend

 

0.73

  

0.17

 
  1. aAdjusted for cohort, age at mammogram, body mass index at mammogram, parity and age at first birth categories, hormonal therapy use, history of biopsy-confirmed benign breast disease, and date of mammogram