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L-methionineFinding

L-methionine decreases breast cancer incidence

lowersVery limited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“No association was found for total folate, vitamin B-6, or vitamin B-12, but methionine was inversely associated with breast cancer risk (P for trend = 0.04).”
Quoted verbatim from Folate and other one-carbon metabolism-related nutrients and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort.
This finding among the 19 findings on its endpoint

L-methionine

Breast cancer incidence

lowers

Who
70,656 postmenopausal women in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort; dietary methionine intake from a 1992 food frequency questionnaire
Dose studied
dietary methionine intake, food frequency questionnaire; quintile contrast not stated for methionine in the abstract

Very limited evidencePMID 20410093 · 2010

02 · The study

Study
cohort
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

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

03 · The paper

The American journal of clinical nutrition
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M70DNMYHBY0XNSY2FVY6VW3V