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SUBMITTER: Katagiri R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6954300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Katagiri Ryoko R Song Mingyang M Zhang Xuehong X Lee Dong Hoon DH Tabung Fred K FK Fuchs Charles S CS Meyerhardt Jeffrey A JA Nishihara Reiko R Chan Andrew T AT Joshi Amit D AD Iwasaki Motoki M Ogino Shuji S Willett Walter C WC Giovannucci Edward E Wu Kana K
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) 20191107 1
Branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) are essential amino acids, and emerging evidence suggests that BCAAs may mediate pathways related to cancer progression, possibly due to their involvement in insulin metabolism. We investigated the association between dietary intake of BCAAs with colorectal cancer risk in three prospective cohorts: the Nurses' Health Study I [(NHS), number of participants (<i>n</i>) at baseline = 77,017], NHS II (<i>n</i> = 92,984), and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study [ ...[more]