Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 407-413 , May 2008

Consumption of fruit and vegetables and risk of lung cancer: A case-control study in Galicia, Spain

  • Olga Dosil-Díaz, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Galician Public Foundation for Health Emergencies–061, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • ,
  • Alberto Ruano-Ravina, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • Galician Agency for Health Technology Assessment, Galician Health Service, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34-981-581237; fax: +34-981-572282.
    • ,
  • Juan J. Gestal-Otero, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • Preventive Medicine Unit, Santiago de Compostela University Teaching Hospital, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • ,
  • Juan M. Barros-Dios, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    • Preventive Medicine Unit, Santiago de Compostela University Teaching Hospital, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Received 6 September 2007 ,Accepted 10 January 2008.

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 This work has been funded in part by grant FIS 92/0176 from the Spanish Ministry of Health and grants XUGA 91010 and XUGA 92100 from the Regional Authority on Research.

PII: S0899-9007(08)00011-7

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2008.01.005

Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 407-413 , May 2008

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