Dietary intakes of red meat, poultry, and fish during high school and risk of colorectal adenomas in women
Nimptsch K, Bernstein AM, Giovannucci E, Fuchs CS, Willett WC, Wu K
American journal of epidemiology · 27 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
- Intake measured by
- Food frequency questionnaire
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Cancer Institute
- Government
- NCI NIH HHS
- Grants
- National Cancer Institute (R01‐CA050385); National Cancer Institute (P01 CA087969)
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2013-06-19 · Am J Epidemiol · vol. 178 · issue 2 · pp. 172–183
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Cited
- 31 citations · more than 72% of similar papers · 0.7× the field average
- References
- 47 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy)
- Research areas
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Keywords
- Red meat, Medicine, Colorectal adenoma, Odds ratio, Adenoma, Confidence interval, Colorectal cancer, Internal medicine, Gastroenterology, Physiology, Cancer, Pathology
- MeSH
- animals, poultry, cattle, humans, adenoma, colorectal neoplasms, colonoscopy, diet, diet surveys, multivariate analysis, logistic models, risk factors, follow-up studies, prospective studies, meat, seafood, adolescent, adult, middle aged, united states, female, young adult, surveys and questionnaires
6 authors
From US
- Katharina NimptschHarvard University
- Adam Bernstein
- Edward L. Giovannucci
- Charles S. Fuchs
- Walter Churchill Willett
- Kana Wu
Abstract
Adolescent diet may be etiologically relevant for colorectal carcinogenesis. We examined the association between meat and fish intakes during adolescence and the risk of colorectal adenomas later in life among 19,771 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study II. Subjects had completed a validated food frequency questionnaire in 1998 (when aged 34-51 years) about their diets during high school and subsequently underwent at least 1 lower-bowel endoscopy during the study period (1998-2007). During this period, 1,494 subjects were diagnosed with colorectal adenomas. Intake of red meat during adolescence was not associated with colorectal adenoma risk when comparing those in the highest versus lowest category of intake (odds ratio (OR) = 1.04, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.81, 1.35). Similarly, intake of fish during adolescence was not associated with colorectal adenoma risk (OR = 0.96, 95% CI: 0.78, 1.17). Intake of poultry during adolescence was associated with a lower risk of total colorectal (OR = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.64, 0.99), distal (OR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.51, 0.99), rectal (OR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.29, 0.90), and advanced (OR = 0.60, 95% CI: 0.38, 0.93) adenomas. Replacement of 1 serving per day of red meat with 1 serving per day of poultry or fish was associated with 41% and 35% decreased risks for rectal adenomas and advanced adenomas, respectively. Our findings do not suggest an association between red meat intake during adolescence and colorectal adenomas later in life, but higher poultry intake during this time was associated with a lower risk of colorectal adenomas.
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