Table 1

Selected characteristics of the 825 participants

Characteristic

Value


Ethnicity

White

262 (31.8%)

Japanese American

361 (43.8%)

Native Hawaiian

202 (24.5%)

Menopausal status, hormone replacement therapy at first mammogram

Premenopausal

201 (24.4%)

Postmenopausal, no hormone replacement therapy

204 (24.7%)

Estrogen only hormone replacement therapy

228 (27.6%)

Estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy

192 (23.3%)

Case status

Case

361 (43.8%)

Control

464 (56.2%)

Family history (mother or sister)

Yes

114 (13.8%)

No

711 (86.2%)

Mean age over all mammograms (years)

59.5 ± 8.8

Mean body mass index over all mammograms (kg/m2)

25.3 ± 5.5

Mean percent dense area (%)

32.7 ± 22.2

Mean dense area (cm2)

32.5 ± 25.4

Mean breast area (cm2)

117.1 ± 60.0


Data presented as n (%) or mean ± standard deviation. The set of 825 subjects is the union of the individual sets of 634 to 806 subjects who were genotyped for each polymorphism of interest; that is, 825 subjects had at least one polymorphism of interest genotyped.

Woolcott et al. Breast Cancer Research 2009 11:R10   doi:10.1186/bcr2229

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