Dietary Patterns and Plasma Sex Hormones, Prolactin, and Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin in Premenopausal Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sex hormones are important for breast cancer, but it is unclear whether dietary patterns influence hormone concentrations.

Methods

Dietary pattern adherence scores for the alternate Mediterranean diet (aMED), Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), and Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) were calculated from semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires administered in 1995 and 1999. Premenopausal plasma concentrations of sex hormones were measured in samples collected in 1996 to 1999. We used generalized linear models to calculate geometric mean hormone concentrations across quartiles of dietary pattern scores among 1,990 women in the Nurses' Health Study II.

Results

We did not observe significant associations between sex hormone concentration

SUBMITTER: Hirko KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5082703 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature