Drinking water and dietary sources of nitrate and nitrite and risk of glioma

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1260-1267

  Ward, Mary H ^a   Heineman, Ellen F ^a   McComb, Rodney D ^b   Weisenburger, Dennis D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN INTAKE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 29144514697     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000184879.67736.ae     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Bogovski P. Bogovski S. Animal species in which N-nitroso compounds induce cancer. Int J Cancer. 1981;27:471-474.
2. Tomatis L. Prenatal carcinogenesis. In: Kakundaga T, Sugimura T, Tomatis L, Yamasaki H, eds. Cell Diff Genes and Cancer. Sci Pub No 92. Lyon: IARC; 1988:121-132.
3. Tricker AR. N-Nitroso compounds and man: sources of exposure, endogenous formation and occurrence in body fluids. Eur J Cancer Prev. 1997;6:226-268.
4. Ohshima H, Bartsch H. Quantitative estimation of endogenous nitrosation in humans by monitoring N-nitroso-proline excreted in the urine. Cancer Res. 1981;41:3658-3662.
5. Mirvish SS, Grandjean AC, Moller H, et al. N-nitrosoproline excretion by rural Nebraskans drinking water of varied nitrate content. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1992;1:455-461.
6. Moller H, Landt J, Perdersen E, et al. Endogenous nitrosation in relation to nitrate exposure from drinking water and diet in a Danish rural population. Cancer Res. 1989;49:3117-3121.
7. Van Maanen JMS, Welle IJ, Hageman G, et al. Nitrate contamination of drinking water: Relationship with HPRT variant frequency in lymphocyte DNA and urinary excretion of N-nitrosamines. Environ Health Perspect. 1996;104:522-528.
8. Chilvers C, Inskip H, Caygill C et al. A survey of dietary nitrate in well-water users. Int J Epidemiol. 1984;13:324-31.
9. Moller H, Landt J, Jensen P, et al. Nitrate exposure from drinking water and diet in a Danish rural population. Int J Epidemiol. 1989;18:206-211.
10. Hallberg GR, Riley DR, Kantamneni JR, et al. Assessment of Iowa Safe Drinking Water Act monitoring data: 1988-1995. The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory Research Report No. 1996;97-1.
11. Nolan BT, Ruddy BC, Hitt KJ, et al. Risk of nitrate in groundwaters of the United States - a national perspective. Environ Sci Technol. 1997;31:2229-2236.
12. Barrett JH, Parslow RC, McKinney PA, et al. Nitrate in drinking water and the incidence of gastric, esophageal, and brain cancer in Yorkshire, England. Cancer Causes Control. 1998;9:153-159.
13. Van Leeuwen JA, Waltner-Toews D, Abernathy T, et al. Associations between stomach cancer incidence and drinking water contamination with atrazine and nitrate in Ontario (Canada) agroecosystems, 1987-1991. Int J Epidemiol. 1999;28:836-840.
14. Steindorf K, Schlehofer B, Becher H, et al. Nitrate in drinking water. A case-control study on primary brain tumours with an embedded drinking water survey in Germany. Int J Epidemiol. 1994;23:451-457.
15. Cantor KP. Drinking water and cancer. Cancer Causes Control. 1997;8:292-308.
16. Bartsch H, Frank N. Blocking the endogenous formation of N-nitroso compounds and related carcinogens. In: Stewart BW, McGregor D, Kleihues P, eds. Principles of Chemoprevention. IARC Scientific Publications No. 139. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer; 1996.
17. Chen H, Ward MH, Tucker KL, et al. Diet and risk of adult glioma in eastern Nebraska, United States. Cancer Causes Control. 2002;13:647-655.
18. Zahm SH, Weisenburger DD, Babbitt PA, et al. A case-control study of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in eastern Nebraska. Epidemiology. 1990;1: 349-356.
19. Ward MH, Sinha R, Heineman EF, et al. Risk of adenocarcinoma of the stomach and esophagus with meat cooking method and doneness preference. Int J Cancer. 1997;71:14-19.
20. Chen H, Ward MH, Graubard BI, et al. Dietary patterns and adenocarcinoma of the stomach and esophagus. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002;75:137-144.
21. Kleihues P, Burger PC, Scheithauer BW. The new WHO classification of brain tumours. Brain Pathol. 1993;3:255-268.
22. Block G, Hartman AM, Naughton D. A reduced dietary questionnaire: development and validation. Epidemiology. 1990;1:58-64.
23. National Academy of Sciences. The Health Effects of Nitrate, Nitrite and N-Nitroso Compounds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1981.
24. Howe GR, Harrison L, Jain M. A short diet history for assessing dietary exposure to N-nitrosamines in epidemiologic studies. Am J. Epidemiol. 1986;124:595-602.
25. Panalaks T, Iyengar JR, Sen NP. Nitrate, nitrite, and dimethylnitrosamine in cured meat products. J Assoc Off Anal Chem. 1973;56:621-625.
26. Panalaks T, Iyengar JR, Donaldson BA, et al. Further survey of cured meat products for volatile N-nitrosamines. J Assoc Off Anal Chem. 1974;57:806-812.
27. White JW Jr. Relative significance of dietary sources of nitrate and nitrite. J Agric Food Chem. 1975;23:886-891.
28. Willett WC, Howe GR, Kushi LH. Adjustment for total energy intake in epidemiologic studies. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997;65:1220S-1228S; discussion 1229S-1231S.
29. Ward MH, Mark SD, Cantor KP, et al. Drinking water nitrate and the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Epidemiology. 1996;7:465-471.
30. American Public Health Association. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. 13th ed. New York: American Public Health Association; 1971.
31. American Public Health Association. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. 14th ed. New York: American Public Health Association; 1976.
32. Armitage P, Berry G. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1987.
33. Exner ME, Spalding R. Occurrence of Pesticides and Nitrate in Nebraska's Groundwater. Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska; 1990.
34. Kross BC, Hallberg GR, Bruner DR, et al. The nitrate contamination of private well water in Iowa. Am J Public Health. 1993;83:270-272.
35. Zahm SH, Ward MH, Blair A. Pesticides and cancer. Occup Med. 1997;12:269-289.
36. Giles GG, McNeil JJ, Donnan GA, et al. Dietary factors and the risk of glioma in adults: results of a case-control study in Melbourne, Australia. Int J Cancer. 1994;59:357-362.
37. Kaplan S, Novikov I, Modan B. Nutritional factors in the etiology of brain tumors: potential role for nitrosamines, fat, and cholesterol. Am J Epidemiol. 1997;146:832-841.
38. Blowers L, Preston-Martin S, Mack W. Dietary and other lifestyle factors of women with brain gliomas in Los Angeles County (California, USA). Cancer Causes Control. 1997;8:5-12.
39. Preston-Martin S, Pogoda JM, Mueller BA, et al. Maternal consumption of cured meats and vitamins in relation to pediatric brain tumors. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1996;5:599-605.
40. Lee M, Wrensch M, Mike R. Dietary and tobacco risk factors for adult onset glioma in the San Francisco Bay Area (California, USA). Cancer Causes Control. 1997;8:13-24.
41. Boeing H, Schlehofer B, Blettner M, et al. Dietary carcinogens and the risk of glioma and meningioma in Germany. Int J Cancer. 1993;53:561-565.
42. Huncharek M, Kupelnick B, Wheeler LJ. Dietary cured meat and the risk of adult glioma: a meta-analysis of nine observational studies. Environ Pathol Toxicol Oncol. 2003;22:129-137.
43. McLaughlin JK, Blot WJ, Mehl ES, et al. Problems in the use of dead controls in case-control studies I. General results. Am J Epidemiol. 1985;121:131-139.
44. Mirvish SS. Formation of N-nitroso compounds: chemistry, kinetics, and in vivo occurrence. Tox Applied Pharmacol. 1975;31:325-351.