VITamins And Lifestyle Cohort Study
Initiatives
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Investigating the associations of supplement use with cancer risk. Specific goals focus on the associations of supplemental vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, and multivitamins with prostate, female breast, lung, and colorectal cancer incidence.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 2000
- End Year
- 2010
- Funding
- Grant (R01CA74846) from the National Cancer Institute.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Information on cancers, deaths, and moves out of the area are obtained primarily from passive follow-up by using linkages to public databases.
Marker Paper
White E, Patterson RE, Kristal AR, Thornquist M, King I, Shattuck AL, Evans I, Satia-Abouta J, Littman AJ, Potter JD. VITamins And Lifestyle cohort study: study design and characteristics of supplement users. Am J Epidemiol. 2004 Jan 1;159(1):83-93. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwh010.
PUBMED 14693663
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 77,738
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Men and women in western Washington State. Aged 50-76 years
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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