Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Incidence of Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Study
Background: Whether fruit and vegetable consumption may confer protection from gastric cancer remains controversial. Methods: We prospectively investigated the association between consumption of fruits and vegetables and the incidence of gastric cancer among participants from two population-based co...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention biomarkers & prevention, 2006-10, Vol.15 (10), p.1998-2001 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background: Whether fruit and vegetable consumption may confer protection from gastric cancer remains controversial.
Methods: We prospectively investigated the association between consumption of fruits and vegetables and the incidence of gastric
cancer among participants from two population-based cohort studies: 36,664 women in the Swedish Mammography Cohort and 45,338
men in the Cohort of Swedish Men. Participants completed a food-frequency questionnaire in 1997 and were followed up for cancer
incidence through June 2005. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate multivariate hazard ratios (HR) and 95%
confidence intervals (95% CI).
Results: During a mean follow-up of 7.2 years, we ascertained 139 incident cases of gastric cancer. Vegetable consumption
was inversely associated with risk of gastric cancer, whereas no significant association was observed for fruit consumption.
After controlling for age and other risk factors, women and men who consumed ≥2.5 servings/d of vegetables had a HR of 0.56
(95% CI, 0.34-0.93) for developing gastric cancer compared with those who consumed |
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ISSN: | 1055-9965 1538-7755 1538-7755 |
DOI: | 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0402 |