title: Vegetable and fruit intake and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survival in Connecticut women.
abstract: We investigated whether an increased intake of vegetables and fruits favors NHL survival. A cohort of 568 female cases of incident NHL diagnosed during 1996-2000 in Connecticut was followed up for a median of 7.7 years. Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated by Cox proportional hazard models. Our results show that a pre-diagnostic high intake of vegetables appeared to favor overall survival (HR = 0.74, 95% CI 0.57-0.98) among patients with NHL who survived longer than 6 months. In particular, pre-diagnostic high intakes of green leafy vegetables and citrus fruits were associated with 29% (95% CI 0.51-0.98) and 27% (95% CI 0.54-0.99) reduced risk of death, respectively. When different types of vegetables and fruits were investigated separately, their impacts were found to vary in NHL subtypes. Our study suggests that increasing vegetable and citrus fruit consumption could be a useful strategy to improve survival in NHL patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Xuesong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Tongzhang
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Francine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Foss
authors.forename: Theodore R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Holford
authors.forename: Shuangge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yaqun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yana
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Yawei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003237:Connecticut / Q000453:epidemiology; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009753:Nutritive Value; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014675:Vegetables; D055815:Young Adult