Folate Intake and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Pooled Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

Ying Bao,Dominique S. Michaud,Donna Spiegelman,Demetrius Albanes,Kristin E. Anderson,Leslie Bernstein,Piet A. van den Brandt,Dallas R. English,Jo L. Freudenheim,Charles S. Fuchs,Graham G. Giles,Edward Giovannucci,R. Alexandra Goldbohm,Niclas Håkansson,Pamela L. Horn-Ross,Eric J. Jacobs,Cari M. Kitahara,James R. Marshall,Anthony B. Miller,Kim Robien,Thomas E. Rohan,Arthur Schatzkin,Victoria L. Stevens,Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon,Jarmo Virtamo,Alicja Wolk,Regina G. Ziegler,Stephanie A. Smith-Warner

Folate Intake and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Pooled Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

2011

Background Epidemiological studies evaluating the association between folate intake and risk of pancreatic cancer have produced inconsistent results. The statistical power to examine this association has been limited in previous studies partly because of small sample size and limited range of folate intake in some studies.

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Prospective cohort study
Proportional hazards model
Odds ratio
Pancreatic cancer
Multivariate analysis
Oncology
Immunology
Cohort study
Epidemiology
Risk assessment
Pathology
Internal medicine
Medicine
Confounding
Relative risk
Confidence interval

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