Adolescent and early adulthood inflammation-associated dietary patterns in relation to premenopausal mammographic density

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Abstract

Background

Adolescence and early adulthood has been identified as a critical time window for establishing breast cancer risk. Mammographic density is an independent risk factor for breast cancer that may be influenced by diet, but there has been limited research conducted on the impact of diet on mammographic density. Thus, we sought to examine the association between adolescent and early adulthood inflammatory dietary patterns, which have previously been associated with breast cancer risk, and premenopausal mammographic density among women in the Nurses’ Health Study II (NHSII).

Methods

This study included control participants with premenopausal mammograms from an existing breast cancer case-control study nested within the NHSII who completed a Food Frequency Questionnaire in 1998 about their diet during high school (HS-FFQ) (n = 685) and/or a Food Frequency Questionnaire in 1991 (Adult-FFQ) when they were 27–44 years old (n = 1068). Digitized analog film mammograms were used to calculate the percent density, absolute dense, and non-dense areas. Generalized linear models were fit to evaluate the associations of a pro-inflammatory dietary pattern and the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI, an anti-inflammatory dietary pattern) with each breast density measure.

Results

Significant associations were observed between an adolescent pro-inflammatory dietary pattern and mammographic density in some age-adjusted models; however, these associations did not remain after adjustment for BMI and other breast cancer risk factors. No associations were observed with the pro-inflammatory pattern or with the AHEI pattern in adolescence or early adulthood in fully adjusted models.

Conclusions

To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the dietary patterns during adolescence and early adulthood in relation to mammographic density phenotypes. Our findings do not support an association between adolescent and early adulthood diet and breast density in mid-adulthood that is independent of BMI or other breast cancer risk factors.

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The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13058-021-01449-0.

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Nichole A. Garzia:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-8297

ngarzia@fredhutch.org

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Breast Cancer Res

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Breast Cancer Res

Title: Breast Cancer Research : BCR

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Print): 1465-5411

ISSN (Electronic): 1465-542X

Publication date (Electronic): 7 July 2021

Publication date PMC-release: 7 July 2021

Publication date (Print): 2021

Volume: 23

Electronic Location Identifier: 71

Affiliations

[1 ]GRID grid.270240.3, ISNI 0000 0001 2180 1622, Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ; 1100 Fairview Ave. North, Seattle, WA 98109-1024 USA

[2 ]GRID grid.34477.33, ISNI 0000000122986657, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, , University of Washington, ; 3980 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98195-002 USA

[3 ]GRID grid.38142.3c, ISNI 000000041936754X, Department of Epidemiology, , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, ; 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115-6028 USA

[4 ]GRID grid.5386.8, ISNI 000000041936877X, Department of Population Health Sciences, , Weill Cornell Medicine, ; 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10065-4805 USA

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Publisher ID: 1449

DOI: 10.1186/s13058-021-01449-0

PMC ID: 8261986

PubMed ID: 34233736

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History

Date received : 22 December 2020

Date accepted : 23 June 2021

Funding

Funded by: Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Funded by: National Institutes of Health (US)

Award ID: U01 CA176726

Funded by: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute

Award ID: R01 CA131332

Award ID: R01 CA175080

Award Recipient : Rulla M. Tamimi

Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002, National Institutes of Health;

Award ID: T32 CA094880

Award Recipient : Nichole A. Garzia

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Keywords: density,breast,diet,pattern,premenopausal

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