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No association between green tea and prostate cancer risk in Japanese men: the Ohsaki Cohort Study.

Kikuchi N, Ohmori K, Shimazu T, Nakaya N, Kuriyama S, Nishino Y, Tsubono Y, Tsuji I

Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan. nkikuchi@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

In a prospective study of 19,561 Japanese men, green-tea intake was not associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer (110 cases), the multivariate hazard ratio for men drinking > or =5 cups compared with <1 cup per day being 0.85 (95% confidence interval 0.50-1.43, trend P = 0.81).

Published 7 August 2006 in Br J Cancer, 95(3): 371-3.
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