Dairy intake during adolescence and risk of colorectal adenoma later in life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Higher dairy intake during adulthood has been associated with lower colorectal cancer risk. As colorectal carcinogenesis spans several decades, we hypothesised that higher dairy intake during adolescence is associated with lower risk of colorectal adenoma, a colorectal cancer precursor.

Methods

In 27,196 females from the Nurses' Health Study 2, aged 25-42 years at recruitment (1989), who had completed a validated high school diet questionnaire in 1998 and undergone at least one lower bowel endoscopy between 1998 and 2011, logistic regression for clustered data was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).

Results

Colorectal adenomas were diagnosed in 2239 women. Dairy consumption during adolescence was not associated with colore

SUBMITTER: Nimptsch K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7960961 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature