Abstract A18: Association of anthropometric factors with risk of colorectal neoplasia in the Black Women's Health Study

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Abstract Evidence for the association of anthropometric factors with colorectal neoplasms is limited for African Americans. Association of 6 anthropometric measures with the risk of both colorectal adenomas and colorectal cancer (CRC) in the ongoing Black Women's Health Study cohort was examined. Using a nested case-control design for the adenoma analyses, 954 cases of colorectal adenoma were compared with 3,816 controls without a colorectal polyp, matched on age and follow-up time. For the CRC analyses, 413 incident CRC cases were identified over a 16-year follow up (802,783 person-years). Cases of adenoma and CRC were verified by medical record review. We used multivariable logistic regression analyses (for adenoma) and Cox proportional hazards analyses (for CRC) that included anthropometric exposures and selected confounders. Among postmenopausal women, risk of adenoma increased by 10% (95% CI: 1.00, 1.22), 11% (95% CI: 1.01, 1.29), and 9% (1.00, 1.19) with 1 standard deviation increase in body mass index, waist circumference, and weight change since age 18 , respectively. Anthropometric factors were not associated with adenoma risk among premenopausal women. None of the anthropometric factors were associated with CRC risk among either pre- or postmenopausal women. Future research should attempt to replicate the modest association of obesity with colon adenoma risk but not CRC risk among postmenopausal African American women. Citation Format: Chiranjeev Dash, Lynn Rosenberg, Jeffrey Yu, Sarah Nomura, Julie Palmer, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell. Association of anthropometric factors with risk of colorectal neoplasia in the Black Women's Health Study [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR International Conference: New Frontiers in Cancer Research; 2017 Jan 18-22; Cape Town, South Africa. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(22 Suppl):Abstract nr A18.