Table 3.

Intake of food groups, and component subgroups, and risk of esophageal and gastric cancer, from United States multicenter, population-based study, Results are adjusted^a OR and 95% CI and show association based on increasing intake of one serving/day

	Esophageal Adenocarcinoma		Gastric Cardia Adenocarcinoma		Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma		Non-Cardia Gastric Cancer
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Fruit	0.85	0.75, 0.96	0.95	0.86, 1.06	0.88	0.76, 1.03	0.99	0.90, 1.09
Citrus	0.94	0.73, 1.22	0.87	0.68, 1.12	0.84	0.59, 1.19	1.07	0.86, 1.33
Non-citrus	0.73	0.59, 0.90	0.84	0.68, 1.03	0.72	0.55, 0.93	0.99	0.83, 1.18
Juice	0.77	0.57, 1.03	1.05	0.89, 1.24	1.04	0.83, 1.30	0.94	0.77, 1.15
Vegetables	0.85	0.75, 0.96	0.96	0.85, 1.08	0.86	0.73, 1.01	0.98	0.88, 1.09
Cruciferous	0.56	0.31, 1.03	0.82	0.47, 1.45	0.97	0.44, 2.10	0.91	0.55, 1.48
Deep yellow	0.58	0.35, 0.96	0.92	0.58, 1.46	0.67	0.36, 1.25	1.13	0.78, 1.64
Dark green	0.52	0.32, 0.86	0.83	0.52, 1.32	0.67	0.36, 1.27	0.96	0.64, 1.44
Starchy	1.56	0.93, 2.62	1.12	0.68, 1.86	0.87	0.45, 1.69	0.79	0.48, 1.29
Raw	0.75	0.61, 0.93	0.93	0.78, 1.14	0.75	0.57, 0.99	1.00	0.84, 1.18
Tomato	0.64	0.38, 1.07	0.78	0.48, 1.27	0.74	0.40, 1.42	0.93	0.60, 1.44
Legumes	0.61	0.18, 2.12	1.57	0.50, 4.88	1.03	0.24, 4.47	0.95	0.33, 2.70
Total Fruit &Vegetable	0.88	0.82, 0.95	0.97	0.90, 1.03	0.90	0.82, 0.99	0.99	0.93, 1.05
Meat	1.43	1.11, 1.83	1.37	1.08, 1.73	1.16	0.87, 1.56	1.39	1.12, 1.71
Fish	1.39	0.61, 3.19	1.79	0.85, 3.80	1.25	0.41, 3.79	1.78	0.88, 3.57
Poultry	1.65	0.97, 2.82	1.89	1.15, 3.11	1.20	0.63, 2.27	1.90	1.19, 3.03
High nitrite	1.34	0.84, 2.15	1.19	0.74, 1.91	1.62	0.91, 2.90	1.88	1.24, 2.84
Red Meats	2.49	1.39, 4.46	1.39	0.80, 2.42	2.10	0.99, 4.45	1.37	0.83, 2.25
Alternates	0.86	0.49, 1.52	1.10	0.64, 1.91	0.41	0.19, 0.90	0.63	0.37, 1.07
Grains	1.05	0.89, 1.23	1.20	1.02, 1.42	0.96	0.76, 1.20	1.36	1.17, 1.59
Whole	0.82	0.63, 1.08	1.06	0.83, 1.36	0.82	0.58, 1.16	0.94	0.75, 1.19
Refined	1.16	0.94, 1.44	1.18	0.95, 1.47	1.21	0.92, 1.59	1.51	1.25, 1.82
Dairy	1.16	0.98, 1.39	1.12	0.93, 1.34	1.39	1.11, 1.75	1.00	0.85, 1.19
Low-fat	0.81	0.60, 1.11	0.83	0.59, 1.17	1.03	0.66, 1.59	0.60	0.41, 0.88
High fat	1.34	1.09, 1.63	1.23	1.01, 1.51	1.48	1.16, 1.89	1.18	0.98, 1.41

^aAdjusted for sex, site (CT, WA, NJ), age, race (white vs. other), proxy status, income, education, usual body mass index, cigarettes/day, consumption of beer, wine and liquor each, and energy intake.