Combined Mineral Intakes and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Postmenopausal Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite considerable biological plausibility, other than for calcium, there are few reported epidemiologic studies on mineral intake-colorectal cancer associations, none of which investigated multiple minerals in aggregate.

Methods

Accordingly, we incorporated 11 minerals into a mineral score and investigated its association with incident colorectal cancer in the Iowa Women's Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 55- to 69-year-old women who completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1986. In the analytic cohort (n = 35, 221), 1,731 incident colorectal cancer cases were identified via the State Health Registry of Iowa. Participants' calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, selenium, potassium, and iodine intakes were ranked 1 to 5, with higher ranks indi

SUBMITTER: Swaminath S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6363899 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature