Healthy lifestyle index and risk of pancreatic cancer in the Women's Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol, body weight, physical activity, and diet quality have been associated with the risk of pancreatic cancer. However, studies of their combined association in women are limited.

Methods

Data on smoking habits, alcohol intake, diet composition, recreational physical activity, body weight, and waist circumference, obtained at recruitment for 136,945 postmenopausal women (aged 50-79 years) participating in the Women's Health Initiative study, were categorized separately, with higher scores for each variable assigned to the categories representing healthier behaviors. The combined healthy lifestyle index (HLI) score, created by summing the scores for each risk factor, was grouped into quartiles. We used multivariable-adjusted Cox

SUBMITTER: Peila R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature