title: Dietary practices and cancer mortality in China.
abstract: An ecological survey on diet, life style and cancer mortality was carried out in 65 rural counties in China, using a questionnaire comprising 285 questions on environmental factors, dietary practices and other life style characteristics; in addition, blood, urine and food were collected and analysed. Two interpretations of preliminary data are presented. One is for the finding of a positive correlation between a latent variable, namely general nutritional status, and cancer mortality rates; the other is for a positive correlation between lipid peroxidation (plasma lipid peroxidase and copper) and oesophageal and gastric cancer mortality, and a negative correlation between dietary oxidants (plasma selenium, ascorbic acid and retinol) and mortality from oesophageal and gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D002681:China; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants