Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0161 |
| Title: | Vitamin K and childhood cancer : a population based case control study in Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Author(s): | Von Kries R, Gobel U, et al. |
| Reference: | BMJ 1996; 313: 199-203 |
| Place of Study: | Lower Saxony, N.W. Germany |
| Abstract: | The authors studied 272 children with leukaemia, nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and tumours of the central nervous system diagnosed between 1 July 1988 and 30 June 1993. Children were aged between 30 days and 15 years at diagnosis. There were 334 controls matched for age and sex. An association between vitamin K exposure and childhood cancer could not be confirmed |
| Keyword(s): | cancer in childhood, vitamin K |
| Discussion: | This study does not confirm the previous British studies. See in particular the discussion for entries 0158 and 0159. |
| See Also: | 0158, 0159 |
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