TY - JOUR T1 - Dairy Food Consumption and Mammographic Breast Density: The Role of Fat JF - Anticancer Research JO - Anticancer Res SP - 6197 LP - 6208 DO - 10.21873/anticanres.13828 VL - 39 IS - 11 AU - ELISABETH CANITROT AU - CAROLINE DIORIO Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/39/11/6197.abstract N2 - Aim: This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the associations between low and high-fat dairy food (DF) intake and breast density (BD). Materials and Methods: A total of 775 premenopausal and 771 postmenopausal women recruited during screening mammography completed a food frequency questionnaire. Adjusted linear regression models were used to assess the associations. Results: As frequency quartiles of high-fat DF consumption increased, the adjusted mean of absolute BD increased from 31.5 to 36.1 cm2 for all women (ptrend=0.0034) and from 42.4 to 50.1 cm2 for premenopausal women (ptrend=0.0047). Conversely, as frequency quartiles of low-fat DF consumption increased, the adjusted mean of absolute BD decreased from 34.7 to 29.6 cm2 for all women (ptrend=0.001) and from 49.7 to 40.7 cm2 for premenopausal women (ptrend=0.0012). Conclusion: A higher intake of high-fat and low-fat DF is respectively associated with higher and lower BD, particularly in premenopausal women. ER -