A Prospective Cohort Study on Vegetable and Fruit Consumption and Stomach Cancer Risk in the Netherlands

The association between vegetable and fruit consumption and stomach cancer risk was investigated in the Netherlands Cohort Study among 120,852 men and women aged 55–69 years at the start in September 1986. Analyses were based on 282 incident stomach cancer cases after 6.3 years of follow-up. Age- and sex-adjusted rate ratios of stomach cancer in increasing quintiles of combined vegetable and fruit consumption were 1.00, 0.70, 0.65, 0.76, and 0.64 (p trend = 0.04). Multivariate analysis resulted in rate ratios that were somewhat closer to one (p trend = 0.14). Furthermore, inverse associations... Mehr ...