Light Alcohol Drinking and Risk of Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to determine whether light alcohol drinking increases the risk of cancer by using a meta-analysis of cohort studies because the newly revised 2015 European Code against Cancer fourth edition on alcohol and cancer was based on critical flaws in the interpretation and citation of the previous meta-analyses.

Materials and methods

PubMed and EMBASE were searched in April, 2016. Two authors independently reviewed and selected cohort studies on the association between very light (≤ 0.5 drink/day), light (≤ 1 drink/day), or moderate drinking (1-2 drinks/day) and the risk of cancer incidence and mortality. A pooled relative riskwith its 95% confidence intervalwas calculated by a random-effects meta-analysis. Main outcome measures were cancer inc

SUBMITTER: Choi YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912140 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature