Green Tea and Cancer of Esophagus and Stomach: a Case Control Study

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Category Primary study
JournalChin J Pubc Health.
Year 1999
A case control study was conducted in Yangzhong city including 68 cases of eospohageal cancer and 141 cases of gastric cancer.By conditional logistic regression analysis,it is concluded that green tea consumption is a protective factor to cancers of oesophagus and stomach except for cardia.It is also observed that amount of tea leaf per month and years of drinking tea are of dose response relationship to the ORs descent of the said two kinds of cancer.
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