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Dietary folate intake and pancreatic cancer risk: Results from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition.

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2018-12-21

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Park, Jin Young
Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas
Ferrari, Pietro
Weiderpass, Elisabete
de Batlle, Jordi
Tjønneland, Anne
Kyro, Cecilie
Rebours, Vinciane
Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine
Mancini, Francesca Romana

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Pancreatic cancer (PC) has an exceptionally low survival rate and primary prevention strategies are limited. Folate plays an important role in one-carbon metabolism and has been associated with the risk of several cancers, but not consistently with PC risk. We aimed to investigate the association between dietary folate intake and PC risk, using the standardised folate database across 10 European countries. A total of 477,206 participants were followed up for 11 years, during which 865 incident primary PC cases were recorded. Folate intake was energy-adjusted using the residual method. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models. In multivariable analyses stratified by age, sex, study centre and adjusted for energy intake, smoking status, BMI, educational level, diabetes status, supplement use and dietary fibre intake, we found no significant association between folate intake and PC risk: the HR of PC risk for those in the highest quartile of folate intake (≥353 μg/day) compared to the lowest (

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Adult
Europe
Female
Folic Acid
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nutritional Status
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Proportional Hazards Models
Prospective Studies
Self Report
Smoking

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EPIC study, dietary folate intake, pancreatic cancer

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