Lung cancer risk: No data was found.
Lung cancer mortality: Data about lung cancer risk was provided by two cohorts. No association was found.
Conclusion: No evidence was found for an association between pickles and lung cancer.
| Author | Cohort name | Subjects | Years of follow-up | Cases | End point | Consumption of | Relative Risk (RR) | Adjustments | |||||||||||||
| 26) Khan MM. (2004) | No cohort name. | 1,524 men and 1,634 women aged ≥ 40 living in Hokkaido, Japan. | 1984-2002 | 41 men, 10 women? | Lung cancer mortality | Japanese pickle | Men: RR = 1.0 (0.3-3.3; No P-value). Women: Not estimated due to 0 case in either of the 2 groups. RRs are for consumption ≥ several times/wk vs ≤ several times/month. | Men: age and smoking. Women: age, health status, health education, health screening + smoking. | |||||||||||||
| 17) Iso H (2007) | The JACC Study. | 43,035 men, and 59,196 women. (Japan) | Not defined. | 821 men, and 249 women. | Lung cancer mortality | Pickles |
Age and study area. |
17) Ozasa K (2001) | The JACC Study. | 42,940 Japanese men (22,465 current smokers, 11,308 ex-smokers, 9,167 nonsmokers) and 55,308 women (2,868 current smokers, 852 ex-smokers, 51,588 nonsmokers) aged 40-79. | 7.7 | (1988-90 to 1997) 446 men (303 current-, 111 ex-, and 32 non-smokers), and 126 women (19 current-, 6 ex-, and 101 nonsmokers) | Lung cancer mortality | Pickles | Not associated with lung cancer death among each group (Men + women, and male current smokers, male ex-smokers and female nonsmokers. Other smoking-status groups were not analyzed because of insufficient numbers of lung cancer cases.). No data shown! | The amount of cases in each food group did not always add up to the total amount of cases in the cohort! Age, parents' history of lung cancer, smoking status, smoking index and time since quitting smoking. |
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