Body Fat and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: A Longitudinal Study

Table 1

Correlation matrix of baseline DXA and anthropometric measures among non-cases (𝑁= 10,457)^a.

	% body fat	Trunk fat mass	Fat mass left leg	Fat mass right leg	Ratio of trunk to leg fat mass	BMI	Waist circum-ference	Waist : hip ratio
Whole body fat mass	0.88	0.95	0.88	0.89	0.28	0.91	0.84	0.29
% body fat		0.86	0.77	0.77	0.31	0.75	0.68	0.24
Trunk fat mass			0.71	0.72	0.53	0.87	0.87	0.42
Fat mass left leg				0.99	−0.15	0.77	0.60	0.01
Fat mass right leg					−0.15	0.77	0.60	0.02
Ratio of trunk to leg fat mass						0.31	0.50	0.58
BMI							0.84	0.35
Waist circumference								0.68

^a𝑃-values for correlations were <0.0001, except for fat mass of the right leg with waist : hip ratio (𝑃=0.20) and fat mass of the left leg with waist : hip ratio (𝑃=0.07).