ArticleJournal of epidemiology2006
Smoking, alcohol drinking, green tea consumption and the risk of esophageal cancer in Japanese men.
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- Green tea consumption and risk of esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies.BMC gastroenterology · 2012Pooled it
- High-temperature beverages and foods and esophageal cancer risk--a systematic review.International journal of cancer · 2009Pooled it
- Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
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- Associations of coffee and tea consumption with lung cancer risk.International journal of cancer · 2021Article
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- A prospective study of tea drinking temperature and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.International journal of cancer · 2020Article
- Green tea consumption and mortality in Japanese men and women: a pooled analysis of eight population-based cohort studies in Japan.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Very hot tea drinking increases esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk in a high-risk area of China: a population-based case-control study.Clinical epidemiology · 2019Article
- Hot Tea Consumption and Its Interactions With Alcohol and Tobacco Use on the Risk for Esophageal Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study.Annals of internal medicine · 2018Article
- Survival based radiographic-grouping for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma may impact clinical T stage.Oncotarget · 2018Article
- Very hot tea drinking increases esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk in a high-risk area of China: a population-based case-control study.Clinical epidemiology · 2018Article
- Coffee and cancer risk: A meta-analysis of prospective observational studies.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Etiology and Prevention of Esophageal Cancer.Gastrointestinal tumors · 2016Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough smoking and alcohol drinking are established risk factors of esophageal cancer, their public health impact is unclear. Furthermore, the effect of green tea is controversial.
methodsThe present study was based on a pooled analysis of two prospective cohort studies. A self-administered questionnaire about health habits was distributed to 9,008 men in Cohort 1 and 17,715 men in Cohort 2, aged 40 years or older, with no previous history of cancer. We identified 38 and 40 patient cases with esophageal cancer among the subjects in Cohort 1 (9.0 years of follow-up) and Cohort 2 (7.6 years of follow-up), respectively. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) of the risk of esophageal cancer incidence.
resultsCigarette smoking, alcohol drinking and green tea consumption were significantly associated with an increased risk of esophageal cancer. Compared with men who had never smoked, never drunk alcohol or green tea, the pooled multivariate HRs (95% confidence intervals) were 5.09 (1.80-14.40) (p for trend <0.0001), 2.73 (1.55-4.81) (p for trend=0.0002), or 1.67 (0.89-3.16) (P for trend=0.04) for men who were currently smoking > or =20 cigarettes/day, drinking alcohol daily, or drinking > or =5 cups green tea/day, respectively. The population attributable fractions of esophageal cancer incidence that was attributable to smoking, alcohol drinking and green tea consumption were 72.0%, 48.6%, and 22.1%, respectively.
conclusionsAmong the variables studied, smoking has the largest public health impact on esophageal cancer incidence in Japanese men, followed by alcohol drinking and green tea drinking.
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