Frequency of Consuming Breakfast Meals and After-Dinner Snacks Is not Associated with Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk: Women's Health Initiative Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been little investigation into how the timing of meals and eating occasions associates with postmenopausal breast cancer risk.

Objective

We examined the association between the frequency of consuming breakfast meals and after-dinner snacks with the risk for postmenopausal breast cancer.

Methods

A prospective analysis of 74,825 postmenopausal women aged 49 to 81 y from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study cohort. Breakfast and after-dinner snack intake were assessed at year 1 examination. Risk for invasive and in situ breast cancer diagnosed before 28 February 2020 was modeled with multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models according to breakfast and after-dinner snack consumption frequencies. The models were adjusted for

SUBMITTER: Elahy V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10367221 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature