Dietary Iron Intake and Risk of Gastric Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Iron is one of the essential elements for human life. Prior studies provided inconclusive results about the association between dietary iron intake and gastric cancer risk. We determined the association between dietary iron intake and the risk of gastric cancer in a case-control study of 1,182 incident gastric cancer cases and 2,965 controls in Vietnam.

Methods

We used a validated, semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire to obtain dietary information, including dietary iron intake. An unconditional regression model was used to calculate OR and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of gastric cancer in relation to dietary iron intake, adjusted for potential confounders.

Results

We observed a U-shaped association between dietary iron intake and gastric canc

SUBMITTER: Pham YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12866599 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature