Milk intake and risk of mortality and fractures in women and men: cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether high milk consumption is associated with mortality and fractures in women and men.

Design

Cohort studies.

Setting

Three counties in central Sweden.

Participants

Two large Swedish cohorts, one with 61,433 women (39-74 years at baseline 1987-90) and one with 45,339 men (45-79 years at baseline 1997), were administered food frequency questionnaires. The women responded to a second food frequency questionnaire in 1997.

Main outcome measure

Multivariable survival models were applied to determine the association between milk consumption and time to mortality or fracture.

Results

During a mean follow-up of 20.1 years, 15,541 women died and 17,252 had a fracture, of whom 4259 had a hip fracture. In the male cohort with a mean

SUBMITTER: Michaelsson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4212225 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature