Dietary antioxidant vitamins intake and mortality: A report from two cohort studies of Chinese adults in Shanghai.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have evaluated dietary antioxidant vitamins intake in relation to risk of mortality in Asia.

Methods

We examined the associations between total carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E from diet and risk of mortality from all causes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease in 134,358 participants (59,739 men and 74,619 women) from the Shanghai Men's Health Study and Shanghai Women's Health Study, two prospective cohort studies of middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults in urban Shanghai. Participants were followed up for a median period of 8.3 and 14.2 years for men and women, respectively. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence interval (CIs) were estimated using Cox proportional hazards regression models.

Results

During the 495,332 and 1,029,198 person-ye

SUBMITTER: Zhao LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363781 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature