Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Sante prospective cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prospective associations between consumption of ultra-processed food and risk of cancer.

Design

Population based cohort study.

Setting and participants

104 980 participants aged at least 18 years (median age 42.8 years) from the French NutriNet-Santé cohort (2009-17). Dietary intakes were collected using repeated 24 hour dietary records, designed to register participants' usual consumption for 3300 different food items. These were categorised according to their degree of processing by the NOVA classification.

Main outcome measures

Associations between ultra-processed food intake and risk of overall, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer assessed by multivariable Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for known risk factors.

Results

SUBMITTER: Fiolet T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811844 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature