{"doi":"10.2188/jea.je20200611","title":"White Rice Consumption and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Among Japanese Americans: The Multiethnic Cohort Study","abstract":"BACKGROUND: White rice is a staple food for Japanese, a population at high risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). We investigated the association between white rice intake and CRC among Japanese Americans in the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study. METHODS: The MEC study is a prospective study established in Hawaii and California in 1993-1996. Usual dietary intake was assessed using a validated quantitative food frequency questionnaire at baseline. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compute hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for quartiles of intake and to perform trend tests across sex-specific quartiles with adjustment for relevant confounders. RESULTS: = 0.006, HR for Q4 vs Q1, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.44-0.99) among men but not women. CONCLUSION: White rice consumption was not associated with an increased risk of overall CRC among Japanese Americans. An inverse association was observed with risk of CRC and distal colon cancer in men without a history of diabetes.","journal":"Journal of Epidemiology","year":2021,"id":205029,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9423,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":348029,"name":"Song‐Yi Park","orcid":"0000-0001-7734-5320","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":11264,"name":"Lynne R. Wilkens","orcid":"0000-0001-8408-4536","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":528554,"name":"Gertraud Maskarinec","orcid":"0000-0002-8129-958X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":311542,"name":"Yurii B. Shvetsov","orcid":"0000-0001-5131-9618","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":11270,"name":"Christopher A. Haiman","orcid":"0000-0002-0097-9971","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":728,"name":"Loı̈c Le Marchand","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-980X","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":787918,"name":"Yuito Okada","orcid":"0000-0002-9490-7652","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":38,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:51:30.197308Z","pmid":"34380917","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}