NASHVILLE, Tenn.--According to a study at Vanderbilt University, no associations between dietary intakes of select antioxidant micronutrients were seen for men or women, but fruit intake was inversely associated with distal gastric cancer risk among men in Shanghai (Am J Epidemol. 2010). Results from case-control and cohort studies of the association between fruit and vegetable consumption and gastric cancer risk have been inconsistent. Cases for the current study consisted of incident distal gastric cancers identified between 1996 and 2007 among 206 members of the Shanghai Women's Health Study and 132 members of the Shanghai Men's Health Study. Intakes of fruits, vegetables and select micronutrients were assessed on the basis of validated food frequency questionnaires.
For women, no associations were found between gastric cancer risk and the highest intake of fruits or vegetables. For men, increased fruit intake was associated with decreased risk of distal gastric cancer, but no association was seen with increased intake of. The inverse association with fruit intake for men was more evident among ever smokers than never smokers.
