International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the bladder cancer, epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) study: design and baseline characteristics

Goossens, Maria E.; Isa, Fatima; Brinkman, Maree; Mak, David; Reulen, Raoul; Wesselius, Anke; Benhamou, Simone; Bosetti, Cristina; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Carta, Angela; Allam, Md Farouk; Golka, Klaus; Grant, Eric J.; Jiang, Xuejuan; Johnson, Kenneth C.; Karagas, Margaret R.; Kellen, Eliane; La Vecchia, Carlo; Lu, Chih-Ming; Marshall, James; Moysich, Kirsten; Pohlabeln, Hermann; Porru, Stefano; Steineck, Gunnar; Stern, Marianne C.; Tang, Li; Taylor, Jack A.; van den Brandt, Piet; Villeneuve, Paul J.; Wakai, Kenji; Weiderpass, Elisabete; White, Emily; Wolk, Alicja; Zhang, Zuo-Feng; Buntinx, Frank; Zeegers, Maurice P.

doi:10.1186/s13690-016-0140-1

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Table 1 Characteristics of the studies included in the pooled analysis of the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)

From: International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the bladder cancer, epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) study: design and baseline characteristics

Study	Country	Recruitment period	Study design	Cases N			Controls N
				men	women	total	men	women	total
Case–control studies
Los-Angeles bladder cancer Case–control study [10]	USA	1987–1999	Population based case–control	1,307	353	1,660	1,237	349	1,586
Roswell Park Cancer Institute [11]	USA	1982–1998	Hospital-based case–control	164	53	217	501	163	664
Belgian Case–control study on bladder cancer [12]	Belgium	1999–2004	Population based case–control	172	28	200	228	156	384
Aichi Prefecture Case–control study [13]	Japan	1996–1999	Hospital-based case–control	245	58	303	244	59	303
Kaohsiung [14]	Taiwan	1996–1997	Hospital-based case–control	31	9	40	124	36	160
Hessen Case–control study on bladder cancer [15]	Germany	1989–1992	Hospital-based case–control	239	61	300	239	61	300
Stockholm Case–control study [16]	Sweden	1985–1987	Population based case–control	204	67	271	281	268	549
Roswell Park Memorial Institute Case–control study on bladder cancer [17]	USA	1957–1965	Hospital-based case–control	415	138	553	3,253	4,636	7,889
Reina Sofia University Hospital [18]	Spain	1997	Hospital-based case–control	74	11	85	89	41	130
New Hampshire bladder cancer study [19]	USA	1994–2001	Population based case–control	286	104	390	185	138	323
Italian Case–control study on bladder cancer [20]	Italy	1985–1993	Hospital-based case–control	617	110	727	766	298	1,064
Brescia bladder cancer study [21]	Italy	1997–2000	Hospital-based case–control	200	0	200	214	0	214
Dortmund Hörde study [22]	Germany	2009–2010	Hospital based case–control	145	48	193	177	56	233
National Enhanced Cancer Surveillance System (NESCC) [23]	Canada	1994–1997	Population based case–control	600	311	911	2,451	2,423	4,874
French INSERM study [24]	France	1984–1987	Hospital-based case–control	166	33	199	275	47	322
South and East China Case–control study on bladder and prostate cancer [25]	China	2005–2008	Hospital-based case–control	390	93	483	364	100	464
Molecular Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer and Prostate Cancer [26]	USA	1993–1997	Hospital-based case–control	149	45	194	243	58	301
North Carolina case control study [27]	USA	1987–1991	Hospital-based case–control	188	56	244	174	41	215
Cohort studies
Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) & the Cohort of Swedish Men [28]	Sweden	1987–1990	Population based cohort	538	119	657	2,188	484	2,672
Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer [29]	The Netherlands	1986–2003	Population based cohort	779	161	940	2,273	2,419	4,692
Women's Lifestyle and Health Study [30]	Norway, Sweden	1991–2006	Population based cohort	0	49	49	0	48,942	48,942
RERF atomic bomb survivors Study [31]	Japan	1950–2000	Population based cohort	216	85	301	19,362	28,249	47,611
VITamins and Lifestyle Study (VITAL) [32]	USA	2000–2008	Population based cohort	338	106	444	36,454	39,983	76,437
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) [33, 34]	Europe	1993–2006	Population based cohort	1,227	525	1,752	141,872	333,279	475,151
TOTAL	–	–	–	8,657	2,604	11,313	213,227	462,305	675,480

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