Dietary intakes of citrus fruit and risk of gastric cancer incidence: an adaptive meta-analysis of cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In the context of supplementary antioxidants having no anticancer effect, it is important to update the meta-analysis to evaluate whether there is an association between intake of citrus fruit and gastric cancer risk.

Methods

The list of articles to be searched was established using citation discovery tools provided by PubMed and Scopus. The effect size of each article to be used in meta-analysis was calculated using the interval-collapse method. Summary effect size (sES) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were obtained by conducting this meta-analysis. Random effect dose-response meta-regression (DRMR) was performed to investigate the dose-response relationship.

Results

A total of five cohort studies were selected. The result was 13% reduction of gastric ca

SUBMITTER: Bae JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037356 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature