American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 52, 752-757, Copyright © 1990 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Food-consumption trends between adolescent and adult years and subsequent risk of prostate cancer

ML Slattery, MC Schumacher, DW West, LM Robison and TK French
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.

A population-based, case-control study of prostate cancer in Utah was used to assess reported food-consumption patterns for the adolescent and adult years. Men reported eating eggs, whole milk, butter, white bread, cereals, and candy less frequently and red meat, fish, low-fat milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, margarine, fruits and vegetables, and whole-wheat bread more frequently as adults, indicating that diets changed in the hypothesized direction to correspond to national changes in food-consumption practices. Men who consumed a diet high in saturated fatty acids as adults were at a slightly increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer after adjusting for adolescent diet (odds ratio 1.8 comparing high with low intakes), whereas men who consumed a diet high in saturated fatty acids as adolescents were not at increased risk of developing these tumors after controlling for a diet high in saturated fatty acids as adults (odds ratio 1.1).

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