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Diet, body mass and colorectal cancer: A case‐referent study in Stockholm
Author(s) -
De Verdier Maria Gerhardsson,
Hagman Ulla,
Steineck Gunnar,
Rieger ÅKe,
Norell Staffan E.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910460514
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , relative risk , confidence interval , referent , population , body mass index , cancer , zoology , endocrinology , environmental health , biology , linguistics , philosophy
A population‐based case‐referent study on diet (total energy, protein, fat, dietary fiber), body mass and colorectal cancer was performed in Stockholm in 1986–1988. The study included 1,081 subjects. The relative risks (RR, with a 95% confidence interval, highest versus lowest quintile) for colon cancer were as follows: total energy (1.7, 1. 0–3.0), protein (2.4, 1.5–4.0), total fat (2.2, 1.3–3.6), dietary fiber for men (0.5, 0.2–1.1), dietary fiber for women (1.2, 0.7–2.3) and body mass (2.0, 1.3–3.1). The relative risks for rectal cancer were: total energy (2.4, 1.2–4.7), protein (3.6, 2.0–6.4), total fat (2.5, 1.4 4.6), dietary fiber (0.5, 0.3–0.9), body mass for men (1.7, 0.7–4.0), and body mass for women (1.0, 0.5–1.9). Adjustment for physical activity, body mass (in the diet analysis), the abovementioned dietary factors (in the body mass analysis), and browned meat surface had little or no influence on the results.