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Table 6 Distributions of the risk factors among the EPIC women by country

From: Risk prediction for estrogen receptor-specific breast cancers in two large prospective cohorts

 

France

Italy

Spain

UK

Netherlands

Greece

Germany

Sweden

Denmark

Norway

Total

n = 68,707

n = 27,851

n = 20,298

n = 35,349

n =22,601

n = 11337

n = 22,085

n = 9142

n = 29,309

n = 3,4651

n = 281,330

Menopausal status:

 Premenopausal

54.0

49.4

54.0

46.4

39.1

35.0

48.6

61.7

22.6

69.5

48.5

 Postmenopausal

46.0

50.6

46.0

53.6

60.9

65.0

51.4

38.3

77.4

30.5

51.5

Age at menopause, years:

 ≤ 45.0

9.7

19.1

26.1

19.5

22.6

30.7

18.3

10.6

16.8

10.4

17.2

 45.1–50.0

20.4

43.9

39.1

29.2

35.6

36.0

33.6

32.7

33.5

22.5

30.9

 50.1–55.0

21.7

28.3

28.0

22.2

29.2

26.2

26.2

18.2

27.5

9.9

24.1

 > 55.0

3.5

2.5

2.8

3.2

3.2

2.5

3.0

3.1

3.9

0.0

3.0

 Missinga

44.7

6.2

4.0

26

9.4

4.6

20

35.4

18.3

57.2

24.8

FTP:

 0 (no)

9.0

12.1

9.8

15.5

13.2

8.6

13.5

4.5

11.6

8.5

10.9

 1 (yes)

83.8

86.6

89.4

80.8

85.5

90.8

86.2

57.4

88.0

91.5

85.2

 Missing

7.2

1.3

0.8

3.7

1.3

0.6

0.3

38.1

0.4

0.0

3.9

Number of FTP:

 1

18.4

24.9

9.1

15.6

6.9

11.3

29.6

13.8

17.7

13.3

16.8

 2

49.4

49.9

37.4

49.9

31.3

55.2

49.2

47.4

51.4

49.2

47.5

 ≥ 3

32.2

25.2

53.5

34.3

33.3

33.4

21.2

37.9

30.9

37.5

33.3

 Missingb

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.2

28.5

0.1

0.0

0.9

0.0

0.0

2.4

Age at 1st FTP, years:

 ≤ 20

9.8

8.7

10.4

11.8

10.0

23.3

20.2

17.1

23.6

21.5

14.6

 20.1–25.0

53.1

43.6

52.2

42.2

45.1

41.5

47.3

45.5

46.4

45.9

47.3

 25.1–30.0

27.8

34.6

30.3

31.8

34.8

25.0

23.1

25.9

22.5

23.6

28.1

 31.1–35.0

7.0

10.2

5.5

10.1

7.9

6.8

7.1

6.2

5.0

6.8

7.4

 > 35.0

2.0

2.7

1.5

3.6

2.2

2.3

2.2

1.6

1.3

2.2

2.2

 Missingb

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.5

0.0

1.1

0.1

3.7

1.2

0.0

0.4

Breastfeeding, months:

 0

27.7

16.8

11.2

15.8

13.6

11.1

16.9

0

6.9

5.7

15.5

 0.1–6.0

47.2

39.6

33.0

40.1

34.6

31.2

59.6

0

43.8

26.5

39.7

 6.1–12.0

14.0

23.4

21.1

16.2

13.1

16.2

13.8

0

26.1

24.0

18.0

 > 12.0

5.4

20.0

34.4

22.6

9.8

40.3

9.2

0

21.0

42.2

19.7

 Missingb

5.7

0.2

0.3

5.3

28.9

1.2

0.5

100

2.2

1.6

7.1

Age at menarche, years:

 ≤ 11

17.0

23.2

18.1

19.2

10.7

9.7

10.8

6.1

8.9

8.5

14.6

 12

24.6

25.0

19.6

18.1

19.9

22.5

21.9

12.0

13.6

19.8

20.7

 13

26.0

24.3

23.8

23.9

23.9

25.9

25.5

17.9

22.4

28.7

25.0

 14

20.6

17.6

22.4

19.0

21.8

20.1

23.0

15.1

25.2

24.4

21.1

 ≥ 15

11.2

8.5

16.1

14.3

21.6

20.7

18.6

11.4

26.2

17.1

15.6

 Missing

0.6

1.4

0.0

5.5

2.1

1.1

0.2

37.5

3.7

1.5

3.0

HRT:

 1 (yes)

31.0

17.2

11.3

31.7

22.5

5.6

38.5

14.0

43.9

31

28.0

 0 (no)

68.3

81.1

85.7

64.9

74.5

93.8

25.7

45.4

54.2

69

66.4

 Missing

0.7

1.7

3.0

3.4

3.0

0.6

35.8

40.6

1.9

0

5.6

Duration of HRT, years:

 ≤ 1.0

26.4

55.2

62.0

30.0

38.0

62.0

21.6

19.2

27.9

18.3

29.2

 1.1–2.0

21.0

11.7

17.1

14.1

13.8

13.5

11.3

12.3

10.2

13.3

14.8

 2.1–3.0

14.0

8.3

6.6

10.8

9.3

5.9

10.3

7.6

8.2

10.0

10.6

 > 3.0

38.6

17.1

12.0

37.9

31.8

16.8

50.7

20.5

52.7

30.1

38.0

 Missingc

0.0

7.7

2.3

7.2

7.1

1.8

6.1

40.4

1.0

28.3

7.4

Height, cm, median

161

158

156

162

164

156

163

164

164

167

162

BMI, kg/m2:

 < 25.0

77.2

46.9

21.1

58.2

50.6

20.9

47.4

57.3

51.1

64.2

56.0

 2.05–29.9

18.5

37.5

43.7

30.3

36.4

38.4

34.6

31.5

34.6

27.7

30.4

 30.0–34.9

3.5

11.8

25.3

8.5

10.1

27.8

13.1

8.3

10.6

6.4

10.1

 ≥ 35.0

0.8

3.8

9.9

3.0

2.9

12.9

4.9

2.9

3.7

1.7

3.5

Alcohol intake, drinks/day:

 0

14.0

22.4

53.3

7.4

17.1

35.3

4.6

16.4

2.7

21.0

17.0

 < 1.0

54.4

46.6

34.2

69.5

56.4

57.2

70.8

82.9

58.2

77.5

59.8

 1.0–1.9

18.0

16.6

8.5

10.9

14.6

5.4

14.9

0.7

20.8

1.5

13.0

 ≥ 2.0

13.6

13.1

4.0

6.4

11.4

1.6

9.6

0

18.2

0

9.3

 Missing

0

1.3

0

5.8

0.5

0.5

0.1

0

0.1

0

0.9

  1. Values are percentages unless otherwise indicated
  2. BMI body mass index, EPIC European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, FTP full-term pregnancy, HRT hormone replacement therapy
  3. aAmong postmenopausal women
  4. b‡Among parous women (FTP = 1)
  5. cAmong HRT users