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boric acidFinding

Boric acid decreases lung cancer incidence

lowersVery limited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Boron intake was inversely associated with lung cancer in women, whereas women who consumed low boron and did not use HRT were at substantial increased odds.”
Quoted verbatim from Dietary boron and hormone replacement therapy as risk factors for lung cancer in women.
This finding among the 11 findings on its endpoint

boric acid

Lung cancer incidence

lowers

Who
Women in a Houston, Texas case-control study, 763 with lung cancer and 838 matched healthy controls; dietary boron intake by quartile
Dose studied
not reported

Very limited evidencePMID 18343880 · 2008

02 · The study

Study
case-control
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limited
  • very limitedthis finding
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

American journal of epidemiology
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WNF4DSE4QZNA4QJJ0VAW77