Dietary fiber and colorectal cancer risk: A nested case-control study using food diaries

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 614-626

  Dahm, Christina C ^a   Keogh, Ruth H ^a,b   Spencer, Elizabeth A ^c   Greenwood, Darren C ^a,d   Key, Tim J ^c   Fentiman, Ian S ^a,e   Shipley, Martin J ^a,f   Brunner, Eric J ^a,f   Cade, Janet E ^a,d   Burley, Victoria J ^a,d   Mishra, Gita ^a,f   Stephen, Alison M ^a,g   Kuh, Diana ^a,f   White, Ian R ^b   Luben, Robert ^a   Lentjes, Marleen A H ^a   Khaw, Kay Tee ^a   Rodwell, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIET RECORDS; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77952076681     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq092     Document Type: Article

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