Raw Garlic Consumption and Lung Cancer in a Chinese Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence of anticancer properties of garlic for different cancer sites has been reported previously in in vitro and in vivo experimental studies but there is limited epidemiologic evidence on the association between garlic and lung cancer.

Methods

We examined the association between raw garlic consumption and lung cancer in a case-control study conducted between 2005 and 2007 in Taiyuan, China. Epidemiologic data was collected by face-to-face interviews from 399 incident lung cancer cases and 466 healthy controls. We used unconditional logistic regression models to estimate crude and adjusted ORs (aOR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI). Adjusted models controlled for age, sex, average annual household income 10 years ago, smoking, and indoor air pollution.

SUBMITTER: Myneni AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873399 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature