Dietary quality index and the risk of breast cancer: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet quality is a significant determinant in the etiology of breast cancer (BrCa), but further studies are required to explore this relationship. Therefore, we tried to assess if diet quality, assessed using the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I), was related to BrCa among the Iranian population.

Methods

In the present case-control research, 134 women with a recent diagnosis of BrCa and 267 without BrCa were selected as case and control groups. Individual food intake data from a food frequency questionnaire was used to compute DQI-I. Also, the multivariable logistic regression models were utilized to evaluate the association between DQI-I and BrCa odds .

Results

We found a significant association between the last tertile of DQI-I and BrCa odds in the

SUBMITTER: Pourhabibi-Zarandi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10474712 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature