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dc.contributor.authorBusund, Marit Katinka
dc.contributor.authorUrsin, Giske
dc.contributor.authorLund, Eiliv
dc.contributor.authorWilsgaard, Tom
dc.contributor.authorRylander, Karin Charlotta Maria
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-04T14:56:28Z
dc.date.available2023-12-04T14:56:28Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-28
dc.description.abstractBackground - Body fatness is a dynamic exposure throughout life. To provide more insight into the association between body mass index (BMI) and postmenopausal breast cancer, we aimed to examine the age at onset, duration, intensity, and trajectories of body fatness in adulthood in relation to risk of breast cancer subtypes.<p> <p>Methods - Based on self-reported anthropometry in the prospective Norwegian Women and Cancer Study, we calculated the age at onset, duration, and intensity of overweight and obesity using linear mixed-effects models. BMI trajectories in adulthood were modeled using group-based trajectory modeling. We used Cox proportional hazards models to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations between BMI exposures and breast cancer subtypes in 148,866 postmenopausal women.<p> <p>Results - A total of 7223 incident invasive postmenopausal breast cancer cases occurred during follow-up. Increased overweight duration and age at the onset of overweight or obesity were associated with luminal A-like breast cancer. Significant heterogeneity was observed in the association between age at overweight and overweight duration and the intrinsic-like subtypes (pheterogeneity 0.03). Compared with women who remained at normal weight throughout adulthood, women with a descending BMI trajectory had a reduced risk of luminal A-like breast cancer (HR 0.54, 95% CI 0.33–0.90), whereas women with ascending BMI trajectories were at increased risk (HR 1.09; 95% CI 1.01–1.17 for “Normal-overweight”; HR 1.20; 95% CI 1.07–1.33 for “Normal-obesity”). Overweight duration and weighted cumulative years of overweight and obesity were inversely associated with luminal B-like breast cancer.<p> <p>Conclusions - In this exploratory analysis, decreasing body fatness from obesity in adulthood was inversely associated with overall, hormone receptor-positive and luminal A-like breast cancer in postmenopausal women. This study highlights the potential health benefits of reducing weight in adulthood and the health risks associated with increasing weight throughout adult life. Moreover, our data provide evidence of intrinsic-like tumor heterogeneity with regard to age at onset and duration of overweight.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBusund, Ursin, Lund, Wilsgaard, Rylander. Trajectories of body mass index in adulthood and risk of subtypes of postmenopausal breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research. 2023;25(1)
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2195780
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s13058-023-01729-x
dc.identifier.issn1465-5411
dc.identifier.issn1465-542X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31923
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.journalBreast Cancer Research
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleTrajectories of body mass index in adulthood and risk of subtypes of postmenopausal breast canceren_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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