Is vegetarian diet associated with a lower risk of breast cancer in Taiwanese women?

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Table 3 Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk

	Breast cancer
	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis^a
Dietary pattern	OR	95% CI	P value	OR	95% CI	P value
Meat (nil)			<0.001			<0.001
1 time/day	1.85	(1.47–2.33)		2.25	(1.69–2.98)
Processed meat (nil)			0.052			0.006
1 time/day	1.22	(1.00–1.49)		1.56	(1.14–2.13)
Fruit/Vegetables/Soybean (nil)			0.834			0.909
1 time/day	0.98	(0.83–1.25)		1.01	(0.82–1.26)
Dessert/sugar (nil)			0.490			0.403
1 time/day	0.93	(0.78–1.12)		0.90	(0.71–1.14)
Fermented food (nil)			0.803			0.850
1 time/day	0.98	(0.81–1.17)		0.98	(0.76–1.25)

Characters in parentheses indicate reference group; ^a: estimates of logistic regression were adjusted for age, body mass index, albumin, triglyceride, total cholesterol, estradiol, smoke, alcohol, family history of breast cancer; OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval

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