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.