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Folate and other one-carbon metabolism-related nutrients and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort.

The American journal of clinical nutrition2010The record ↗

  1. Finding, very limited evidencelowersBreast cancer incidence

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  • Decreases breast cancer incidence

    very limited

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

Study record

Design
cohort study
Species
human
Population
postmenopausal women in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort
Participants
70,656
Comparator
observational
Duration
not reported
Endpoints measured
2