Dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk in the Physicians’ Health Study | Zendy

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Dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk in the Physicians’ Health Study

Author(s) -

June M. Chan,

Meir J. Stampfer,

Jing Ma,

Peter H. Gann,

J. Michael Gaziano,

Edward L. Giovannucci

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

american journal of clinical nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1938-3207

pISSN - 0002-9165

DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/74.4.549

Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , relative risk , body mass index , calcium , prostate , vitamin d and neurology , cancer , lower risk , odds ratio , logistic regression , placebo , gynecology , confidence interval , pathology , alternative medicine

A high calcium intake, mainly from dairy products, may increase prostate cancer risk by lowering concentrations of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)], a hormone thought to protect against prostate cancer. The results of epidemiologic studies of this hypothesis are inconclusive.

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