In an article (1) in the June 2007 issue, there was an error in the algorithm used to compute red meat intake. The values for the cutpoints and the hazard ratios and confidence intervals in the bottom-most panel in Table 1 are incorrect. Because there is no association with red meat intake in the corrected data, this change does not affect the interpretation in the article. The correct values are given below.

Table 1.

Multivariate-adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals for the association of four measures of dietary iron or meat intake and incident breast cancer

FactorMultivariate HR* (95% CI)
Premenopausal (n cases = 1171)Postmenopausal** (n cases = 993)All women (n cases = 2491)
Red meat (g/d)    
    <48.49 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 
    48.49-<66.33 0.95 (0.79-1.14) 1.13 (0.93-1.39) 0.98 (0.87-1.11) 
    66.33-<83.47 0.86 (0.71-1.03) 1.10 (0.90-1.35) 1.04 (0.92-1.16) 
    83.47-<108.99 0.98 (0.82-1.18) 1.09 (0.88-1.34) 1.03 (0.90-1.18) 
    108.99+ 0.87 (0.71-1.06) 1.08 (0.88-1.34) 0.98 (0.86-1.12) 
    P for trend 0.27 0.62 0.91 
FactorMultivariate HR* (95% CI)
Premenopausal (n cases = 1171)Postmenopausal** (n cases = 993)All women (n cases = 2491)
Red meat (g/d)    
    <48.49 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 
    48.49-<66.33 0.95 (0.79-1.14) 1.13 (0.93-1.39) 0.98 (0.87-1.11) 
    66.33-<83.47 0.86 (0.71-1.03) 1.10 (0.90-1.35) 1.04 (0.92-1.16) 
    83.47-<108.99 0.98 (0.82-1.18) 1.09 (0.88-1.34) 1.03 (0.90-1.18) 
    108.99+ 0.87 (0.71-1.06) 1.08 (0.88-1.34) 0.98 (0.86-1.12) 
    P for trend 0.27 0.62 0.91 
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Kabat GC, et al. Dietary iron and heme iron intake and risk of breast cancer: a prospective cohort study.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
 
2007
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16
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1306
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American Association for Cancer Research
2007