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Table 1 Characteristics of women in the retrospective analysis, by menopausal status

From: Associations of height, body mass index, and weight gain with breast cancer risk in carriers of a pathogenic variant in BRCA1 or BRCA2: the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Cohort Consortium

Menopausal status

Premenopausal

Postmenopausal

Pre-/postmenopausal

BRCA status

BRCA1

BRCA2

BRCA1

BRCA2

BRCA1/2

Breast cancer

Unaffected

Affected

Total

Unaffected

Affected

Total

Unaffected

Affected

Total

Unaffected

Affected

Total

Total

Number

n = 2729

n = 1528

n = 4257

n = 1765

n = 836

n = 2601

n = 451

n = 199

n = 650

n = 327

n = 179

n = 506

n = 6858

Age at Censoring

38.2 ± 9.0

37.5 ± 6.7

37.9 ± 8.2

39.9 ± 8.9

39.9 ± 6.6

39.9 ± 8.2

53.4 ± 9.0

54.2 ± 8.0

53.7 ± 8.7

57.4 ± 8.8

56.0 ± 7.2

56.9 ± 8.3

40.5 ± 10.6

Year of Birth, no (%)

 < 1950

581 (21.3)

332 (21.7)

913 (21.4)

465 (26.3)

182 (21.8)

647 (24.9)

218 (48.3)

150 (75.4)

368 (56.6)

205 (62.7)

136 (76.0)

341 (67.4)

1560 (22.7)

1950–1959

552 (20.2)

529 (34.6)

1081 (25.4)

343 (19.4)

295 (35.3)

638 (24.5)

148 (32.8)

39 (19.6)

187 (28.8)

88 (26.9)

41 (22.9)

129 (25.5)

1719 (25.1)

1960–1969

748 (27.4)

487 (31.9)

1235 (29.0)

456 (25.8)

283 (33.9)

739 (28.4)

79 (17.5)

8 (4.0)

87 (13.4)

31 (9.5)

2 (1.1)

33 (6.5)

1974 (28.8)

 ≥ 1970

848 (31.1)

180 (11.8)

1028 (24.1)

501 (28.4)

76 (9.1)

577 (22.2)

6 (1.3)

2 (1.0)

8 (1.2)

3 (0.9)

0 (0.0)

3 (0.6)

1605 (23.4)

Height (cm)

164.9 ± 6.9

164.6 ± 6.6

164.8 ± 6.8

164.3 ± 6.8

164.6 ± 7.0

164.4 ± 6.8

163.6 ± 6.9

162.1 ± 6.6

163.1 ± 6.8

162.6 ± 6.7

162.3 ± 6.3

162.5 ± 6.5

164.2 ± 6.6

Young adult*

Weight (kg)

57.5 ± 8.9

56.1 ± 7.9

57.0 ± 8.6

57.9 ± 9.8

56.6 ± 7.9

57.5 ± 9.2

56.8 ± 8.2

56.1 ± 8.3

56.6 ± 8.2

57.9 ± 11.4

55.8 ± 8.5

57.2 ± 10.5

57.2 ± 8.8

BMI (kg/m2)

21.1 ± 3.0

20.7 ± 2.6

21.0 ± 2.9

21.4 ± 3.3

20.9 ± 2.6

21.3 ± 3.1

21.2 ± 2.8

21.4 ± 2.9

21.3 ± 2.8

21.9 ± 3.9

21.2 ± 2.9

21.6 ± 3.6

21.1 ± 3.0

  1. Numbers are means ± SD unless otherwise specified
  2. *Age 18 or 20 years