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Dietary choline and betaine intakes and risk of total and lethal prostate cancer in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

Cancer causes & control2019The record ↗

  1. Finding, limited evidenceno difference foundProstate cancer incidence

No finding here moved its endpoint.

What did not

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  • No detected effect on prostate cancer incidence

    limited

    “After additionally adjusting for purported prostate cancer risk factors (model 2), baseline choline intake was not associated with incidence of total, lethal or fatal prostate cancer overall or in white or African-American men.”
    Study
    cohort
    Dose studied
    dietary choline intake, tertiles of energy-adjusted intake
    Population
    Men without a cancer diagnosis at baseline in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort, white and African-American; baseline dietary choline intake by tertile from a food frequency questionnaire

Study record

Design
cohort study
Species
human
Population
Men in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study without cancer at baseline (1987-1989), followed through 2012; 24.4% African American
Participants
6,528
Comparator
observational
Duration
6,575 days
Endpoints measured
20