Neighborhood disadvantage and individual-level life stressors in relation to breast cancer incidence in US Black women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on psychosocial stress and risk of breast cancer has produced conflicting results. Few studies have assessed this relation by breast cancer subtype or specifically among Black women, who experience unique chronic stressors.

Methods

We used prospective data from the Black Women's Health Study, an ongoing cohort study of 59,000 US Black women, to assess neighborhood- and individual-level psychosocial factors in relation to risk of breast cancer. We used factor analysis to derive two neighborhood score variables after linking participant addresses to US Census data (2000 and 2010) on education, employment, income and poverty, female-headed households, and Black race for all households in each residential block group. We used Cox proportional hazards regressi

SUBMITTER: Barber LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8609879 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature