Plant-Based Dietary Index and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data on the association between the plant-based diet and pancreatic cancer are sparse. We, therefore, examined associations for plant-based dietary indices (PDI), healthy PDI (hPDI), and unhealthy PDI (uPDI) with pancreatic cancer risk.

Methods

We used data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 63,275 participants, ages 45 to 74 years, living in Singapore who were recruited during 1993 to 1998. The three plant-based dietary scores were calculated from the semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire that was collected at the baseline. We identified pancreatic cancer cases using record linkage with the Singapore Cancer Registry. A Cox proportional hazard regression method was used to generate HRs and 95% confidence intervals (CI) f

SUBMITTER: Thi-Hai Pham Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12576912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature