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. 2008 Jul 2;3(7):e2568. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002568

Table 1. Volunteer characteristics and plasma PSA levels.

Age BMI GSTM1 PSA (ng/ml)
Pre-intervention 6-month 12-month
Broccoli intervention
68 29 null 4.6 5.4 5.3
68 27 null 3.1 3.2 2.9
64 26 null 9.4 3.5 2.9
63 31 null 6.5 7.9 7.2
66 28 null 0.9 1.3 0.9
Mean (sd) 4.9 (3.25) 4.3 (2.50) 3.84 (2.44)
57 27 positive 5.5 5.5 5.7
66 30 positive 13.6 16.8 13.4
69 27 positive 6.9 3.8 3.7
62 23 positive 2.2 2.2 1.9
59 29 positive 10.8 10.4 11.2
68 25 positive 9.7 12.5 7.2
64 32 positive 6.4 6.1 6.6
63 27 positive 7.9 9 10.8
Mean (sd) 7.9 (3.5) 8.3 (4.85) 7.56 (3.95)
Peas intervention
70 28 null 4.1 4.2 4.4
65 24 null 7.5 9.3 8.2
59 24 null 9.3 10.8 8
61 35 null 1.1 1.1 1.1
57 26 null 5.5 5.4 5.2
Mean (sd) 5.5 (3.15) 6.2 (3.92) 5.4 (2.92)
70 23 positive 8.9 5.2 N/A*
61 29 positive 2.3 2.2 2.5
57 30 positive 3.5 5.5 4.9
Mean (sd) 4.9 (3.52) 4.3 (1.82) 3.7 (1.70)

One of the 22 volunteers was diagnosed with prostatic adenocarcinoma at the study baseline biopsy (pre-intervention) and was removed from the study.

*

This volunteer developed prostatic adenocarcinoma six months into the intervention and was removed from the study.