Diabetes mellitus and the risk of gastrointestinal cancer in women compared with men: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing epidemic proportions of diabetes mellitus (DM) are a major cause of premature illness and death. However, whether DM confers the same excess risk of gastrointestinal cancer for women as it does for men remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to estimate the relation between DM and gastrointestinal cancer in women compared with men after accounting for other major risk factors based on cohort studies.

Methods

We performed a meta-analysis of cohort studies published through May 2017 from PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Studies with cohort designs were stratified by sex and reported the relation between DM and esophageal cancer (EC), gastric cancer (GC), colorectal cancer (CRC), colon cancer (CC), rectal cancer (RC), hepatocellul

SUBMITTER: Fang HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902961 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature