Menée auprès d'une cohorte de 28 250 femmes âgées de 12 à 22 ans en 1997, cette étude évalue l'association entre l'activité physique pratiquée durant l'adolescence et le risque d'adénome colorectal à l'âge adulte

Physical activity during adolescence and risk of colorectal adenoma later in life: results from the Nurses’ Health Study II

Rezende, Leandro Fórnias Machado de ; Lee, Dong Hoon ; Keum, NaNa ; Nimptsch, Katharina ; Song, Mingyang ; Lee, I. Min ; Eluf-Neto, Jose ; Ogino, Shuji ; Fuchs, Charles ; Meyerhardt, Jeffrey ; Chan, Andrew T. ; Willett, Walter ; Giovannucci, Edward ; Wu, Kana

Background : Physical activity during adulthood has been consistently associated with lower risk of colorectal cancers, but whether physical activity during adolescence may also play a role in colorectal carcinogenesis is unclear. Methods : We included 28,250 women in the Nurses’ Health Study II who provided data on physical activity during adolescence (ages 12–22 years) in 1997 and underwent lower bowel endoscopy (1998–2011). We used logistic regression models for clustered data to examine the [...]

Menée à partir de questionnaires auprès de 292 patients atteints d'un cancer de l'estomac et auprès de 1 168 témoins, cette étude évalue l'association entre la consommation de légumes crucifères et le risque de développer la maladie

Cruciferous Vegetable Consumption and Stomach Cancer: A Case-Control Study

Morrison, Maia E. W. ; Joseph, Janine M. ; McCann, Susan E. ; Tang, Li ; Almohanna, Hani M. ; Moysich, Kirsten B.

Objective : To investigate the association between regular cruciferous vegetable intake and stomach cancer. Methods : A hospital-based, case-control study was conducted at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY, which included 292 stomach cancer patients and 1168 cancer-free controls recruited between 1992 and 1998 as part of the Patient Epidemiology Data System (PEDS). Dietary and other epidemiologic and confounding variables were collected by questionnaire. Multivariable [...]