RESEARCH - Folic acid linked to elevated prostate cancer risk

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Folic Acid Linked to Elevated Prostate Cancer Risk

By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: March 10, 2009

Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD

LOS ANGELES, March 10 -- Daily folic acid supplementation may increase

the risk of prostate cancer, a secondary analysis of a randomized

trial revealed.

Men who took a 1 mg folic acid supplement a day had more than double

the risk of developing prostate cancer as those who took a placebo (HR

2.58, 95% CI 1.14 to 5.86), Jane Figueiredo, Ph.D., of the University

of Southern California here, and colleagues reported online in the

Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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