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Title: Soy consumption and mortality in Hong Kong: Proxy-reported case-control study of all older adult deaths in 1998
Author(s): Ho SY, Schooling M, Hui LL, McGhee SM, Mak KH, Lam TH
Source: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 43 (1): 20-26 JUL 2006
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 59 Times Cited: 1
Abstract: Objectives. This study investigates the relation between soy consumption and mortality in a population-based case-control study in Hong Kong of all adult deaths in 1998.
Methods. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the effect of soy on all-cause and cause-specific mortality in 21,494 deceased cases and 10,968 living controls who were ethnic Chinese aged 60 or above, using proxy reports collected from the person registering the death. Dietary habits were obtained from proxies in both cases and controls, based on a 7-item questionnaire.
Results. The adjusted odds ratios for all-cause mortality for soy consumption 4 or more times a week compared with less than once a month were 0.77 (95% Cl: 0.62, 0.95) for men and 0.66 (0.54, 0.81) for women. Mortality from lung cancer (males P = 0.02, females P = 0.02), colorectal cancer (males P = 0.07, females P < 0.001), stomach cancer (males P = 0.04, females P = 0.03), female breast cancer (P = 0.02) and ischemic heart disease (males P < 0.001, females P = 0.002) was inversely associated with soy consumption.
Conclusions. Our study suggests that maintaining traditional levels of soy consumption could be protective for some chronic diseases in China. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords: soy; mortality; Hong Kong; case-control study
KeyWords Plus: CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE; LUNG-CANCER RISK; PROSTATE-CANCER; DIETARY-INTAKE; CHINESE POPULATION; SERUM-CHOLESTEROL; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; BLOOD-PRESSURE; WOMEN; MEN
Addresses: Schooling M (reprint author), Univ Hong Kong, Fac Med, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Community Med, 5-F,William MW Mong Bldg,21 Sassoon Rd, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peoples R China
Univ Hong Kong, Fac Med, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Community Med, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peoples R China
Dept Hlth, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peoples R China
E-mail Addresses: commed@hkucc.hku.hk, commed@hkucc.hku.hk
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA