Dairy products, calcium, phosphorous, vitamin D, and risk of prostate cancer (Sweden) (original) (raw)
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Objectives: Dairy products consistently have been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, yet the mechanism of this relationship remains unknown. Recent hypotheses propose that 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25 D) is protective for prostate cancer. One study in the United States found that calcium consumption, which can lower circulating 1,25 D, was associated with higher risk of advanced prostate cancer, and we sought to address this hypothesis in a distinct population.
Methods: We analyzed data from a population-based case- control study of prostate cancer conducted in Örebro, Sweden, with 526 cases and 536 controls. Using unconditional logistic regression models, we examined the relationship of dairy products, dietary calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin D with risk of total, extraprostatic, and metastatic prostate cancer.
Results: Calcium intake was an independent predictor of prostate cancer (relative risk (RR)=1.91, 95 percent confidence interval (CI) 1.23-2.97 for intake ≥1183 vs. <825mg/day), especially for metastatic tumors (RR=2.64, 95 percent CI 1.24-5.61), controlling for age, family history of prostate cancer, smoking, and total energy and phosphorous intakes. High consumption of dairy products was associated with a 50 percent increased risk of prostate cancer.
Conclusions: Our results support the hypothesis that high calcium intake may increase risk of prostate cancer, and this relation may underlie previously observed associations between dairy products and prostate cancer.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
June M. Chan & Hans-Olov Adami - Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Edward Giovannucci - Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Edward Giovannucci - Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Swen-Olof Andersson, Hans-Olov Adami & Alicja Wolk - Department of Urology, Örebro Medical Center, Örebro, Sweden
Swen-Olof Andersson - Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Jonathan Yuen
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- June M. Chan
- Edward Giovannucci
- Swen-Olof Andersson
- Jonathan Yuen
- Hans-Olov Adami
- Alicja Wolk
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Chan, J.M., Giovannucci, E., Andersson, SO. et al. Dairy products, calcium, phosphorous, vitamin D, and risk of prostate cancer (Sweden).Cancer Causes Control 9, 559–566 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008823601897
- Issue Date: December 1998
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008823601897