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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-10
pubmed:abstractText
Grapefruit inhibits cytochrome P450 3A4 and may affect estrogen metabolism. In the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), we examined the relationships of grapefruit intake with risk of breast cancer and with serum sex hormone levels. 114,504 women with information on dietary intake of grapefruit and on reproductive and lifestyle risk factors were followed for a median 9.5 years and 3,747 incident breast cancers were identified. Fifty-nine percent of women reported eating grapefruit, 4% ate > or = 60 g/day. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) for breast cancer according to grapefruit intake, adjusting for study centre, reproductive factors, body mass index, energy intake, and alcohol intake. Grapefruit intake was not related to the risk of breast cancer: compared with women who ate no grapefruit, women with the highest intake of > or =60 g/day had a HR of 0.93 (95% CI 0.77-1.13), p for linear trend = 0.5. There was no relationship between grapefruit intake and breast cancer risk among premenopausal women, all postmenopausal women, or postmenopausal women categorized by hormone replacement therapy use (all p>0.05). There was no association between grapefruit intake and estradiol or estrone among postmenopausal women. In this study, we found no evidence of an association between grapefruit intake and risk of breast cancer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1573-7225
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
803-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Alcoholic Beverages, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Body Mass Index, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Citrus paradisi, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Diet Surveys, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Energy Intake, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Europe, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Gonadal Steroid Hormones, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Hormone Replacement Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Life Style, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Longitudinal Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Meta-Analysis as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Multicenter Studies as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Postmenopause, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Premenopause, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Proportional Hazards Models, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Prospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19224379-Risk Factors
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Prospective study of the association between grapefruit intake and risk of breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).
pubmed:affiliation
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. elizabeth.spencer@ceu.ox.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't