Meat consumption and risk of hepatobiliary cancers in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated the relationship between intakes of red, white, and processed meats with liver cancer-including hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer, and other biliary tract cancers.

Methods

The analytic cohort consisted of 480 347 US adults in the prospective National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study who were cancer-free at baseline at ages 50-71 years. With a median follow-up of 19.68 years, we identified 1150 participants with incident liver cancer (219 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas and 931 hepatocellular carcinomas), 231 with incident gallbladder cancer, and 472 with other incident biliary tract cancers (272 extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas). At baseline, a self-administered food frequency questionn

SUBMITTER: Wahl D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12322487 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature