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boric acidFinding

Boric acid decreases prostate cancer incidence

lowersInsufficient evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“After controlling for age, race, education, smoking, body mass index, dietary caloric intake, and alcohol consumption, increased dietary boron intake was associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer with a dose-response pattern.”
Quoted verbatim from Dietary boron intake and prostate cancer risk.
This finding among the 28 findings on its endpoint

boric acid

Prostate cancer incidence

lowers

Who
US men in NHANES III, 95 prostate cancer cases and 8,720 male controls, cross-sectional case-control design
Dose studied
not reported

Insufficient evidencePMID 15010890 · 2004

02 · The study

Study
case-control
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficientthis finding

03 · The paper

Oncology reports
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WNZN460PBTWVQK6HF3GMCP