Carotenoid and vitamin intake, von Hippel-Lindau gene mutations and sporadic renal cell carcinoma

Objective: We investigated whether dietary carotenoid and vitamin intake and supplemental vitamin use were inversely associated with RCC risk and with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)-gene mutations in clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Methods: The Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer (NLCS) includes 120,852 persons, who completed a self...

Vegetable and fruit consumption and lung cancer risk in the Netherlands: Cohort study on diet and cancer

Objective: The purpose was to study the association between vegetable and fruit consumption and lung cancer incidence using 1074 cases after 6.3 years of follow-up in the Netherlands Cohort Study. Methods: Dietary intake was assessed using a 150-item food-frequency questionnaire. Multivariate models were used including age, sex, family history...

Toename van het aantal opnamen en meer sterfte vanwege ondervoeding bij kinderen in Paramaribo [Increase of number of admissions and higher mortality because of malnutrition in children in Paramaribo]

Objective: To determine the extent and severity of malnutrition in children in the last 10 years in 's Lands Hospitaal. Setting: Paramaribo, Surinam. Design: Retrospective descriptive study. Method: Data were collected from the medical files of children admitted because of malnutrition, by completing a standard questionnaire. Results: The number...

Nutrition assessment and dietary guidelines: Experience from the Dutch Nutrition Surveillance System

Calculated iodine intake before and after simulated iodization (Dutch Nutrition Surveillance System)

To estimate the effect of possible goitre prophylactic measures on the intake of iodine among population groups, simulation studies, based on the first Dutch National Food Consumption Survey, were carried out. Iodine intake figures and prevalence of low intakes were calculated after fictively iodizing either bread, a combination of industrial...

Nutrition and aging: Nutritional status of ''apparently healthy'' elderly (Dutch nutrition surveillance system)

In a nationwide survey the nutritional status was assessed of 539 apparently healthy, independently living elderly aged 65-79 years. Anthropometric data showed no energy deficits. The prevalence of anemia was 4 and 1% among men and women, respectively. Many elderly showed a low level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in plasma (< 31 nmol/L: men 35%; women...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Dutch total diet samples (1984-1986)

Over a period of 2.5 yr, 221 different food items of a 'market basket' of 18-yr-old males were purchased every 3 months. In total, 10 market baskets were collected. The foodstuffs were prepared by normal methods and combined into 23 commodity groups. Homogenates were prepared from each commodity group, followed by analysis for 17 different...