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Published on: September 18, 2013
Dairy products, calcium and prostate cancer risk
K A Koh1, H D Sesso, R S Paffenbarger
1Harvard University, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Abstract:
In a prospective study of 10,011 men with 815 prostate cancer cases, despite plausible biological mechanisms, neither increasing intake levels of dairy products nor calcium from dairy products (P trend; 0.23 and 0.64, respectively), or calcium supplements was associated with prostate cancer risk (relative risk, 1.05; 95% confidence interval, 0.84-1.31).
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