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Chunk #7 — METHODS — Statistical Analyses

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Moderate alcohol consumption during adult life, drinking patterns, and breast cancer risk.
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duration/type of hormone therapy use. We included dummy variables for missing covariate data, which comprised less than 5% of total person-time (except for missing breastfeeding which was 9.5%). Tests for trend were calculated using alcohol consumption as a continuous variable. Tests for interaction were performed using the Wald test for the cross-product interaction term. The proportional hazards assumption was not violated. All analyses were performed using SAS software, version 9.1 with a two-sided significance p-value <0.05.