Vegetable and fruit consumption and prostate cancer risk: a cohort study in The Netherlands.

Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. AG.Schuurman@Epid.UniMass.NL The association between 21 vegetables and eight fruits and prostate cancer risk was assessed in the Netherlands Cohort Study among 58,279 men of ages 55-69 years at baseline in 1986. After 6.3 years of follow-up, 610 cases with complete vegetable data and 642 cases with complete fruit data were available for analysis. In multivariate case-cohort analyses, the following rate ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for vegetable consumption were found (comparing highest versus lowest quintile... Mehr ...