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Table 1 Cohort characteristics

From: Association of body mass index and inflammatory dietary pattern with breast cancer pathologic and genomic immunophenotype in the nurses’ health study

 

IHC training cohort

N (%)

Expression only evaluation cohort

N (%)

P value*

Total

262

620

 

NHS cohort

  

 < 0.0001

 NHS

0 (0.0)

537 (86.6)

 

 NHSII

262 (100.0)

83 (13.4)

 

Diagnosis year

  

0.001

 Prior to 1990

1 (0.4)

13 (2.1)

 

 1990–1999

109 (41.6)

327 (52.7)

 

 2000–2011

152 (58.0)

280 (45.2)

 

Age at diagnosis (years)

  

 < 0.0001

   < 50

156 (59.5)

29 (4.7)

 

  50–59

106 (40.5)

163 (26.3)

 

  60–69

0 (0.0)

230 (37.1)

 

   ≥ 70

0 (0.0)

198 (31.9)

 

IHC subtype

  

 < 0.0001

 ER−/HER2−

36 (13.7)

65 (10.5)

 

 ER+/HER2−

179 (68.3)

313 (50.5)

 

 ER± /HER2 + 

46 (17.6)

178 (28.7)

 

Race

  

0.20

 White

246 (93.9)

596 (96.1)

 

 Non-White

16 (6.1)

24 (3.9)

 

Menopausal status

  

 < 0.0001

 Premenopausal

200 (76.3)

37 (6.0)

 

 Postmenopausal

45 (17.2)

562 (90.6)

 

 Unknown

17 (6.5)

21 (3.4)

 

Stage at diagnosis

  

0.83

 Stage I

152 (58.0)

376 (60.6)

 

 Stage II

86 (32.8)

185 (29.8)

 

 Stage III

21 (8.0)

54 (8.7)

 

 Stage IV

2 (0.8)

4 (0.6)

 

Body mass index (BMI)

  

0.01

 Underweight/Normal weight (< 25)

151 (57.6)

289 (46.6)

 

 Overweight (25- < 30)

67 (25.6)

195 (31.5)

 

 Obese (≥ 30)

43 (16.4)

134 (21.6)

 

BMI change since age 18

  

0.09

 Mean

4.8

5.4

 

 Standard deviation

4.5

4.7

 

 Range

(− 4.7,22.1)

(− 11.7,24.9)

 

Cumulative average physical activity (MET hours/week)

  

0.83

 Mean

18.2

18.5

 

 Standard deviation

18.8

16.5

 

 Range

(0.7,191.3)

(0.4,117.7)

 

Cumulative average empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP) score

  

0.15

 Mean

− 0.1

− 0.04

 

 Standard deviation

0.8

0.8

 

 Range

(− 2.5,2.2)

(− 4.3,4.5)

 
  1. *P value from chi-square tests for categorical variables and t tests for continuous variables