BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There have been few studies of the risk factors associated with @entity14 in Taiwan, a country of low incidence of the disease. This study investigated whether dietary and lifestyle factors correlate with @entity14 risks in Taiwan. METHODS: A total of 352 @entity1 with @entity694 and 375 @entity1 with @entity5 histologically confirmed between 1995 to 1999 at a medical center in northern Taiwan were included in the study. They were age- and gender-matched with 736 healthy controls who were recruited from the health examination clinic at the same hospital. Dietary intake and lifestyle variables were ascertained using a standardized questionnaire. Unconditional multiple logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS: The risk of @entity5 was inversely associated with vegetable/fruit consumption in both @entity1 and @entity1 . The adjusted ORs based on the highest versus the lowest tertile consumption were 0.36 (95% CI, 0.21 to 0.61) and 0.44 (95% CI, 0.27 to 0.72) for @entity1 , respectively. The corresponding ORs for @entity1 were 0.32 (95% CI, 0.19 to 0.56) and 0.39 (95% CI, 0.23 to 0.69), respectively. However, the highest versus the lowest tertile meat consumption was associated with significantly elevated risk in both @entity1 and @entity1 for both @entity694 (ORs, 1.85 and 2.29, respectively) and @entity5 (ORs, 2.32 and 2.42, respectively). Risk also increased with less exercise, low or moderate coffee consumption, cigarette smoking and @entity285 intake, and decreased with the frequency of fish/shrimp consumption among @entity1 . CONCLUSIONS: Consistent with the findings of previous studies in Western populations, this study found that vegetable and fruit consumption, less meat consumption, and exercise were associated with a reduced incidence of @entity14 in Taiwanese.

Risk factors for XXXX in Taiwan: a hospital-based case-control study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'men'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['colon cancer and of rectal cancer', 'rectal cancer'] @entity14 :: ('MESH:D015179', 'Disease') :: ['colorectal cancer'] @entity285 :: ('D000431', 'Chemical') :: ['alcohol'] @entity694 :: ('MESH:D003110', 'Disease') :: ['colon cancer']
@entity14 :: (MESH:D015179,Disease) :: ['colorectal cancer']
