Mediterranean diet and prostate cancer risk and mortality in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prostate cancer (PCa) mortality rates are lower in the Mediterranean countries compared with northern Europe. Although specific components of the Mediterranean diet (Med-Diet) may influence PCa risk, few studies have assessed the traditional Med-Diet pattern with the risk of incident advanced or lethal PCa or with disease progression among men diagnosed with nonmetastatic PCa.

Objective

To determine whether the traditional Med-Diet pattern is associated with risk of incident advanced or lethal PCa and with PCa-specific and overall mortality among men with PCa.

Design, setting, and participants

We prospectively followed 47 867 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study followed from 1986 to 2010. The case-only analysis included 4538 men diagnosed with n

SUBMITTER: Kenfield SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4157361 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature