Fjorida Llaha

This DAG represents the causal relationship between current alcohol intake and incidence of breast cancer in postmenopausal Norwegian women. Women were randomly recruited in the Norwegian Women and Health (NOWAC) cohort study from 1996 to 2004. For this analysis we included 32 735 women included who reported that they consumed alcohol and were not prevalent cancer cases. This study was designed to address the effect of light-moderate drinking since the majority of women in this cohort (~95%) reported no more than 1 drink/day. Except for the outcome, other nodes in the DAG represent self-reported variables collected at baseline only (1996-2004), …