Breast cancer risk factors in two distinct ethnic groups: Indian and Pakistani vs. American premenopausal women

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-26

  Kamath, Savitri K ^a   Murillo, Genoveva ^a   Chatterton Jr , Robert T ^b   Hussain, Erum A ^a   Amin, Daxa ^c   Mortillaro, Erica ^d   Peterson, Charles T ^e   Alekel, D Lee ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Appalachian Regional Health Care   (United States)

^d American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation   (United States)

^e Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FAT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ISOFLAVONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032764033     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S1532791416-26     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts and Figures 1995. Atlanta, GA: Am Cancer Soc, 1994.
2. Landis, MPH, Sarah, H, Murray, T, Bolden, S, Wingo, MS, et al.: Cancer statistics. CA Cancer J Ctin 48, 6-62, 1998.
3. Yeole, BB, Jayant, K, and Jussawalla, DJ: Trends in breast cancer incidence in Greater Bombay: an epidemiological assessment. Bull World Health Org 68, 245-249, 1990.
4. Seow, A, Duffy, SW, McGee, MA, Lee, J, and Lee, HP: Breast cancer in Singapore: trends in incidence 1968-1992. Int J Epidemiol 25, 40-45, 1996.
5. Barker, RM, and Baker, MR: Incidence of cancer in Bradford Asians. J Epidemiol Community Health 44, 125-129, 1990.
6. Blesch, KS, Davis, F, and Kamath, S: A comparison of breast and colon cancer incidence rates among native Asian Indians, US immigrant Asian Indians, and US whites. J Am Diet Assoc. In press.
7. Bureau of the Census: We, the Asian Americans. Washington, DC: US Govt Printing Office, 1993.
8. Lamb, LE: The breast cancer dilemma. Health Lett 41 Suppl, 6, 1994. (Special Rep 149)
9. Rose, DP: Diet, hormones and cancer. Annu Rev Public Health 14, 1-17, 1993.
10. Bruning, PF, Bonfrer, JMG, and Hart, AAM: Non-protein bound oestradiol, sex hormone binding globulin, breast cancer and breast cancer risk. Br J Cancer 51, 479-484, 1985.
11. Pike, MC, Gerkins, VR, Casagrande, JT, Gray, GE, Brown, J, et al.: The Hormonal Basis of Breast Cancer. Bethesda, MD: Cancer Inst, 1979, pp 187-193. (Monogr 53)
12. Siiteri, PK, Hammond, GL, and Nisker, JA: Increased Availability of Serum Estrogens in Breast Cancer: A New Hypothesis, MC Pike, PK Siiteri, and CW Welsh (eds). Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1981, pp 87-101. (Banbury Rep 8)
13. Daniell, MD, and Harry, W: The influence of obesity and age at diagnosis on the estrogen receptor status of breast cancers. Cancer 61, 1237-1240, 1988.
14. Solomon, CG, and Manson, JE: Obesity and mortality: a review of the epidemiologic data. Am J Clin Nutr 66 Suppl, 1044S-1050S, 1997.
15. Kaneda, N, Nagata, C, Kabuto, M, and Shimizu, H: Fat and fiber intakes in relation to serum estrogen concentration in premenopausal Japanese women. Nutr Cancer 27, 279-283, 1997.
16. Freedman, LS, Prentice, RL, Clifford, C, Harlan, W, Henderson, M, et al.: Dietary fat and breast cancer: where we are. JNCI 85, 764-765, 1994.
17. Wynder, EL, Cohen, LA, Rose, DP, and Stellman, SD: Dietary fat and breast cancer: where do we stand on the evidence? J Clin Epidemiol 47, 217-222, 1994.
18. Willett, W: Response to Wynder et al.'s paper on dietary fat and breast cancer. J Clin Epidemiol 47, 223-226, 1994.
19. Rose, DP: Dietary fiber and breast cancer. Nutr Cancer 13, 1-8, 1990.
20. Kritchevsky, D: Diet and cancer. In American Cancer Society Textbook of Clinical Oncology, AI Holleb, DJ Fink, and GP Murphy (eds). Atlanta, GA: Am Cancer Soc, 1991, pp 125-132.
21. Anderson, JB, and Garner, SC: Phytoestrogens and human function. Nutr Today 32, 232-239, 1997.
22. Adlercreutz, H: Western diet and Western diseases: some hormonal and biochemical mechanisms and associations. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 50 Suppl, 3-23, 1990.
23. Phillips, RL: Role of life-style and dietary habits in risk of cancer among Seventh-Day Adventists. Cancer Res 35, 3513-3522, 1975.
24. Boyd, NF, and McGuire, V: Evidence of association between plasma high density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk factors for breast cancer. JNCI 82, 460-468, 1990.
25. Soler, JT, Folsom, AR, Kaye, SA, and Prineas, RJ: Associations of abdominal adiposity, fasting insulin, sex hormone binding globulin, and estrone with lipids and lipoproteins in postmenopausal women. Atherosclerosis 79, 21-27, 1989.
26. Goodwin, PJ, Boyd, NF, Hanna, W, Harwick, W, Murray, D, et al.: Elevated levels of plasma triglycerides are associated with histologically defined premenopausal breast cancer risk. Nutr Cancer 27, 284-292, 1997.
27. Alekel, L, Clasey, JL, Fehling, PC, Weigel, RM, Boileau, RA, et al.: Contributions of exercise, body composition, and age to bone mineral density in premenopausal women. Med Sci Sports Exerc 27, 1477-1485, 1995.
28. Sallis, JF, Haskell, WL, Wood, PD, Fortmann, SP, Rogers, T, et al.: Physical activity assessment methodology in the Five-City Project. Am J Epidemiol 121, 91-106, 1985.
29. Després, J-P, Prud'homme, D, Pouliot, M-C, Tremblay, A, and Bouchard, C: Estimation of deep abdominal adipose-tissue accumulation from simple anthropometric measurements in men. Am J Clin Nutr 54, 471-417, 1991.
30. Tavani, A, Pregnolato, A, LaVecchia, C, Negri, E, Favero, A, et al.: Breast size and breast cancer risk. Eur J Cancer Prev 5, 337-342, 1996.
31. Alekel, L: Contributions of Physical Activity, Body Composition, Age, and Nutritional Factors to Total and Regional Bone Mass in Premenopausal Aerobic Dancers and Exercisers (doctoral dissertation). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1993.
32. Block, G: A review of the validations of dietary assessment methods. Am J Epidemiol 115, 492-505, 1982.
33. IBM: Nutritionist IV: Version 6.0 for IBM and Compatible Computers. N-Squared Computing, 1993.
34. Allain, CA, Poon, LS, Chan, CSG, Richmond, W, and Fu, PC: Enzymatic determination of total serum cholesterol. Clin Chem 20, 470, 1974.
35. Buoccolo, G, and David, H: Quantitative determination of serum triglycerides by the use of enzymes. Clin Chem 19, 476-482, 1973.
36. 2+ precipitation procedure for quantitation of high density lipoprotein cholesterol. Clin Chem 28, 1379-1388, 1982.
37. Friedewald, WT, Levy, RI, and Fredrickson, DS: Estimation of the concentration of low density lipoprotein cholesterol in plasma without the use of preparatory ultracentrifugation. Clin Chem 18, 499-502, 1972.
38. Persky, V, Chatterton, R, Jr, Van Horn, LV, Grant, MD, Langenberg, P, et al.: Hormone levels in vegetarian and non-vegetarian teenage girls: potential for implications for breast cancer. Cancer Res 52, 578-583, 1992.
39. Street, C, Howell, RJS, Perry, L, Al-Othman, S, and Chard, T: Inhibition of binding of gonadal steroids to serum binding proteins by non-esterified fatty acids: influence of chain length and degree of unsaturation. Acta Endocrinol 120, 175-179, 1989.
40. Bonfrer, JMG, Bruning, PF, and Nooijen, WJ: A simple method for the measurement of the steroid fraction bound to sex hormone binding globulin in serum. J Steroid Biochem 33, 227-231, 1989.
41. Barnes, S, Coward, L, Kirk, M, and Sfakianos, J: HPLC-mass spectrometry analysis of isoflavones. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 217, 254-262, 1998.
42. Cohen, J: Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988, Table 9.4.2.
43. SAS Institute: SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 6, 4th ed. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 1989, vol 1.
44. Kamath, SK, Hussain, EA, Amin, D, Mortillaro E, West, B, et al.: Cardiovascular disease risk factors in two distinct ethnic groups: Indian and Pakistani compared with American premenopausal females. Am J Clin Nutr 69, 621-631, 1999.
45. Toniolo, PC, Levitz, M, Zelniuch-Jacquotte, A, Banerjee, S, Koenig, KL, et al.: A prospective study of endogenous estrogens and breast cancer in postmenopausal women. JNCI 87, 190-197, 1995.
46. Hankinson, SE, Willett, WC, Manson, JE, Colditz, GA, Hunter, DJ, et al.: Plasma sex steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. JNCI 90, 1292-1299, 1998.
47. Key, TJA, Chen, J, Wang, D, Pike, MC, and Boreham, J: Sex hormones in women in rural China and in Britain. Br J Cancer 62, 631-636, 1990.
48. Shimizu, H, Ross, RK, Bernstein, L, Pike, MC, and Henderson, BE: Serum oestrogen levels in postmenopausal women: comparison of American whites and Japanese in Japan. Br J Cancer 62, 451-453, 1990.
49. Goldin, BR, Adlercruetz, H, Gorbach, SL, Woods, MN, Dwyer, JT, et al.: The relationship between estrogen levels and diets of Caucasian American and Oriental immigrant women. Am J Clin Nutr 44, 945-953, 1986.
50. Hill, P, Wynder, EL, Helman, P, Hickman, R, Rona, G, et al.: Plasma hormone levels in different ethnic populations of women. Cancer Res 36, 2295-2301, 1976.
51. Bulbrook, RD, Hay ward, JL, and Spicer, CC: Relation between urinary androgen and corticoid excretion and subsequent breast cancer. Lancet 2, 395-398, 1971.
52. Hay ward, JL, Greenwood, FC, Glober, G, Stemmerman, G, Bulbrookn, RD, et al.: Endocrine status in normal British, Japanese, and Hawaiian Japanese women. Eur J Cancer 14, 1221-1228, 1978.
53. Gordon, GB, Bush, TL, Helzlsouer, KJ, Miller, SR, and Comstock, GW: Relationship of serum levels of dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate to the risk of developing postmenopausal breast cancer. Cancer Res 50, 3859-3862, 1990.
54. Orentreich, J, Brind, JL, Rizer, RL, and Vogelman, H: Age changes and sex differences in serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate concentrations throughout adulthood. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 59, 551-555, 1984.
55. Cold, S, Hansen, S, Overvad, K, and Rose, C: A woman's build and the risk of breast cancer. Eur J Cancer 34, 1163-1174, 1998.
56. Stampfer, MJ, Sacks, FM, Simonetta, S, Willet, WC, and Hennekens, CH: A prospective study of cholesterol, apolipoproteins, and the risk of myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 325, 373-380, 1991.
57. Simons, LA: Interrelations of lipids and lipoproteins with coronary artery disease mortality in 19 countries. Am J Cardiol 57 Suppl, 5G-10G, 1986.
58. Barrett-Connor, EL, and Bush, TL: Estrogen and coronary heart disease in women. JAMA 265, 1861-1867, 1991.
59. Hursting, SD, Thomquist, M, and Henderson, MM: Types of dietary fat and the incidence of cancer at five sites. Prev Med 19, 242-253, 1990.
60. Shultz, TD, and Leklam, JE: Nutrient intake and hormonal status of premenopausal vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventists and premenopausal non-vegetarians. Nutr Cancer 4, 247-259, 1983.
61. Goldin, BG, Woods, MN, Spiegelman, DL, Longcope, C, Morrill-LaBrode, A, et al.: The effect of dietary fat and fiber on serum estrogen concentrations in premenopausal women under controlled dietary conditions. Cancer 74, 1125-1131, 1994.
62. Moore, JW, Key, TJA, Clark, GMG, Hoare, SA, Allen, DS, et al.: Sex-hormone binding globulin and breast cancer risk. Anticancer Res 7, 1039-1048, 1987.
63. Bruning, F: Endogenous estrogens and breast cancer - a possible relationship between body fat distribution and estrogen availability. J Steroid Biochem 27, 487-492, 1987.