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Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
Archives of internal medicine2009The record
4 findings · 1 compound · 4 endpoints · 3 null
What it reported
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1 finding
Ca(2+) — decreases colorectal cancer incidence
LimitedEvidence strength: limited. Human evidence with several recorded weaknesses, or a design that tops out at limited.Findingreplicated ×1“Total calcium was significantly related to a lower risk of colorectal cancer and showed a weak inverse association with kidney cancer.”
Quoted verbatim from Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.. - Study
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- Population
- Men aged 50-71 in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study (men only; sex-specific analysis); total calcium intake from foods and supplements by food frequency questionnaire
Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.2009PMID:19237724Permalink
What did not
3 findings
Ca(2+) — no detected effect on breast cancer incidence
LimitedEvidence strength: limited. Human evidence with several recorded weaknesses, or a design that tops out at limited.FindingNull resultreplicated ×1“Dairy food, dietary, supplemental, and total calcium were not related to breast, ovarian, and endometrial cancer.”
Quoted verbatim from Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.. - Study
- cohort
- Population
- Women aged 50-71 in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study; dietary, supplemental and total calcium intake by food frequency questionnaire
Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.2009PMID:19237724Permalink
Ca(2+) — no detected effect on ovarian cancer incidence
LimitedEvidence strength: limited. Human evidence with several recorded weaknesses, or a design that tops out at limited.FindingNull result“Dairy food, dietary, supplemental, and total calcium were not related to breast, ovarian, and endometrial cancer.”
Quoted verbatim from Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.. - Study
- cohort
- Population
- Women aged 50-71 in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, excluding women with prior oophorectomy; dietary, supplemental and total calcium intake by food frequency questionnaire
Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.2009PMID:19237724Permalink
Ca(2+) — no detected effect on prostate cancer incidence
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.FindingNull result“On the other hand, total calcium was not related to prostate cancer.”
Quoted verbatim from Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.. - Study
- cohort
- Population
- Men aged 50-71 in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study; total calcium intake from foods and supplements by food frequency questionnaire
Dairy food, calcium, and risk of cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.2009PMID:19237724Permalink