TY - JOUR
T1 - Dietary determinants of gastric cancer in south louisiana inhabitants
AU - Correa, Pelayo
AU - Fontham, Elizabeth
AU - Pickle, Linda Williams
AU - Chen, Vivien
AU - Lin, Youping
AU - Haenszel, William
N1 - Funding Information:
I Received November 6, 1984; revised May 20, 1985; accepted June 19, 1985. 2Supported by Public Health Service contract NOICP-91023 from the Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention, National Cancer Institute. 3 Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1901 Perdido St., New Orleans, LA 70112. 4 Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20205. 5 Illinois Cancer Council, 36 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL 60603. 6 Ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases.
PY - 1985/10/1
Y1 - 1985/10/1
N2 - In south Louisiana, 391 recently diagnosed gastric cancer patients and an equal number of controls were interviewed. Questions asked covered residential and occupational histories, environmental exposures, tobacco use, diet, alcohol consumption, and pertinent demographic characteristics. Elevated relative risks were found for use of tobacco and alcohol products. Diet was found to be the main determinant of gastric cancer risk in south Louisiana. Both dietary patterns and dietary risk factors differed for blacks and whites, although fruits as a group and dietary vitamin C were found to exert strong protective effects for both blacks and whites. Consumption of smoked foods and homemade or home-cured meats increased risk of gastric cancer for blacks but not for whites. The findings are discussed in the light of the prevailing etiologic hypotheses.
AB - In south Louisiana, 391 recently diagnosed gastric cancer patients and an equal number of controls were interviewed. Questions asked covered residential and occupational histories, environmental exposures, tobacco use, diet, alcohol consumption, and pertinent demographic characteristics. Elevated relative risks were found for use of tobacco and alcohol products. Diet was found to be the main determinant of gastric cancer risk in south Louisiana. Both dietary patterns and dietary risk factors differed for blacks and whites, although fruits as a group and dietary vitamin C were found to exert strong protective effects for both blacks and whites. Consumption of smoked foods and homemade or home-cured meats increased risk of gastric cancer for blacks but not for whites. The findings are discussed in the light of the prevailing etiologic hypotheses.
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U2 - 10.1093/jnci/75.4.645
DO - 10.1093/jnci/75.4.645
M3 - Article
C2 - 3862897
AN - SCOPUS:0022375416
SN - 0027-8874
VL - 75
SP - 645
EP - 654
JO - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
JF - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
IS - 4
ER -
