Diabetes and cardiovascular disease mortality among a population-based cohort of women with and without breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We investigated whether the relationship between diabetes and all-cause and CVD-related mortality differed between women with and without breast cancer among a cohort drawn from the same source population.

Methods

We interviewed 1,363 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996-1997, and 1,358 age-matched women without breast cancer, to assess history of physician-diagnosed diabetes. All-cause (n = 631) and CVD-specific mortality (n = 234) was determined by the National Death Index through 2009. We estimated multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for the rates of all-cause and CVD-specific mortality and, to account for competing causes of death, and subdistribution HRs (sHRs) for risk of CVD-related death.

Results

Among women with and without breast c

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851095 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature