Lung cancer risk: Data about lung cancer risk was provided by 3 cohorts. No association was found.
Lung cancer mortality: No data was found.
Conclusion: No evidence was found for an association between raisins/grapes and lung cancer.
| Author | Cohort name | Subjects | Years of follow-up | Cases | End point | Consumption of | Relative Risk (RR) | Adjustments |
| 14) Feskanich D (2000) | The Nurses' Health Study & The Health Professionals' Follow-up Study | 77,283 US women (38-63 years) and 47,778 men (40-75 years) | Women: 1984-1996. Men: 1986-1996. | 516? women, and 258? men | Total lung cancer risk | Raisins/grapes | No significant association with risk (no data shown). | Not defined, but probably: age, follow-up cycle, smoking status,years since quitting among past smokers, cigarettes smoked/day among current smokers, age at start of smoking, total energy intake, and availability of diet data after baseline measure. |
| 10) Cutler GJ. (2008) | The Iowa Women's Health Study. | 34,708 postmenopausal women aged 55-69. (USA) | 1986-2004 | 849? | Lung cancer risk | Raisins/grapes | Stratified by smoking history, intake of raisins/grapes (> or = 1 vs < 1 time/wk) was not associated with risk of lung cancer (No data shown). | Age, energy, education, race, BMI, multivitamin use, activity level, and pack years. |