Types of carbohydrate intake and breast cancer survival.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the associations of different types of carbohydrate intake after breast cancer diagnosis with breast cancer-specific and all-cause mortality.

Methods

We prospectively assessed post-diagnostic intake of total sugar, added sugar, and natural sugar as well as carbohydrate from different sources, among 8932 women with stage I-III breast cancer that were identified in the Nurses' Health Study from 1980 to 2010 and Nurses' Health Study II from 1991 to 2011. Participants completed a validated food frequency questionnaire every four years after diagnosis and were followed up for death.

Results

We prospectively documented 1071 deaths due to breast cancer and 2532 all-cause deaths, over a mean of 11.5 years of follow-up. After adjustment for confounding

SUBMITTER: Farvid MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9938676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature