Magnesium via voeding verlaagt kanker onder vrouwen

Research Question:
Eating magnesium lowers the chances of getting cancer?

Study Design:
This overview article contained 6 case-control studies and cohort studies with 1236004 participants together 7.

Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that a high magnesium intake through diet, the chance of getting cancer significantly with 19.1% [RR = 0.801, 95% CI = 0.664-0.966] reduced.

The researchers found that a high magnesium intake through diet, the chance of getting cancer significantly with 33.7% [RR = 0.663, 95% CI = 0.475-.925] in case-control study reduced.

The researchers found that a high magnesium intake through diet, the chance of getting cancer non-significant with 11.2% [RR = 0.888, 95% CI: 0.745-1.060] in prospective cohort study reduced.

The researchers found that a high magnesium intake through diet, the chances of getting colon cancer significantly with 22.5% [RR = 0.775, 95% CI =-0.919 0.655] reduced.

The researchers found that a high magnesium intake through diet, the chance of getting cancer significantly reduced in women but not in men.

The researchers concluded that eating much magnesium the chance of getting cancer, especially colon cancer and especially among women reduced.

Original title:
Dietary Magnesium Intake and Risk of Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of an epidemiological Studies by Ko HJ, Youn CH, [...], Lee WK.

Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910891

Additional information about El Mondo:
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