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Flavonoid intake and breast cancer risk: a case-control study in Greece.
2003 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Flavonoid intake and breast cancer risk: a case-control study in Greece.
"Flavonoids have been investigated for possible inverse associations with various chronic degenerative diseases, but there are no epidemiologic data concerning a possible association between several of the main flavonoid categories and breast cancer risk," investigators in the United States report.
"We have applied recently published data on the flavonoid content of several foods and beverages on dietary information collected in the context of a large case-control study of 820 women with breast cancer and 1548 control women, conducted in Greece," wrote J. Peterson and colleagues, Harvard University, School of Public Health.
"We found a strong, statistically significant inverse association of flavone intake with breast cancer. The odds ratio for an increment equal to one standard deviation of daily flavone intake (i.e., 0.5 mg day[superscript]-1) was 0.87, with 95% confidence interval 0.77-0.97. The association persisted after controlling for fruit and vegetable consumption or for other flavonoid ...
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