Dietary Fat Intake During Adolescence and Breast Density Among Young Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of association between fat intake and breast cancer risk in cohort studies might be attributed to the disregard of temporal effects during adolescence when breasts develop and are particularly sensitive to stimuli. We prospectively examined associations between adolescent fat intakes and breast density.

Method

Among 177 women who participated in the Dietary Intervention Study in Children, dietary intakes at ages 10-18 years were assessed on five occasions by 24-hour recalls and averaged. We calculated geometric mean and 95% confidence intervals for MRI-measured breast density at ages 25-29 years across quartiles of fat intake using linear mixed-effect regression.

Results

Comparing women in the extreme quartiles of adolescent fat intakes, percent dense

SUBMITTER: Jung S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4891243 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature