Open AccessFruit and vegetable intake and the risk of overall cancer in Japanese: A pooled analysis of population-based cohort studies
Author(s) -
Ribeka Takachi,
Manami Inoue,
Yumi Sugawara,
Ichiro Tsuji,
Shoichiro Tsugane,
Hidemi Ito,
Keitaro Matsuo,
Keitaro Tanaka,
Akiko Tamakoshi,
Tetsuya Mizoue,
Kenji Wakai,
Chisato Nagata,
Shizuka Sasazuki
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.679
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1349-9092
pISSN - 0917-5040
DOI - 10.1016/j.je.2016.05.004
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , quartile , cohort , cohort study , demography , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , population , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
A series of recent reports from large-scale cohort studies involving more than 100,000 subjects reported no or only very small inverse associations between fruit and vegetable intake and overall cancer incidence, despite having sufficient power to do so. To date, however, no such data have been reported for Asian populations.