Abstract
Background
Many studies have evaluated the association between vitamin and mineral supplement use and the risk of prostate cancer, with inconclusive results.
Methods
The authors examined the relation of use of multivitamins as well as several single vitamin and mineral supplements to the risk of prostate cancer risk among 1,706 prostate cancer cases and 2,404 matched controls using data from the hospital-based case–control surveillance study conducted in the United States. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for risk of prostate cancer were estimated using conditional logistic regression model.
Results
For use of multivitamins that did not contain zinc, the multivariable odds ratios of prostate cancer were 0.6 for 1–4 years, 0.8 for 5–9 years, and 1.2 for 10 years or more, respectively (p for trend = 0.70). Men who used zinc for ten years or more, either in a multivitamin or as a supplement, had an approximately two-fold (OR = 1.9, 95% CI: 1.0, 3.6) increased risk of prostate cancer. Vitamin E, beta-carotene, folate, and selenium use were not significantly associated with increased risk of prostate cancer.
Conclusion
The finding that long-term zinc intake from multivitamins or single supplements was associated with a doubling in risk of prostate cancer adds to the growing evidence for an unfavorable effect of zinc on prostate cancer carcinogenesis.
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Abbreviations
- CI:
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Confidence interval
- OR:
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Odds ratio
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This work was supported by grant CA45762 from the National Cancer Institute. Additional support was provided by grant FD-U-00082 from the Food and Drug Administration.
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Zhang, Y., Coogan, P., Palmer, J.R. et al. Vitamin and mineral use and risk of prostate cancer: the case–control surveillance study. Cancer Causes Control 20, 691–698 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-008-9282-y
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