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The Western dietary pattern is associated with a relative risk of 1.46 for colon cancer when comparing the highest with the lowest quintiles.
Practitioners should be aware that a Western dietary pattern may increase the risk of colon cancer in women.
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After adjusting for potential confounders, we observed a relative risk for colon cancer of 1.46 (95% confidence interval, 0.97-2.19) when comparing the highest with the lowest quintiles of the Western pattern.
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Based on the prospective cohort study design.
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Major Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Women
Teresa T. Fung et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine · 2003
DOI 10.1001/archinte.163.3.309
cohort · n=76402Cited 262×
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