Meta-analysis of the association between the inflammatory potential of diet and urologic cancer risk.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The inflammatory potential of diet has been shown to have an association with the risk of several cancer types, but the evidence is inconsistent regarding the related risk of urologic cancer (UC). Therefore, we conducted the present meta-analysis to investigate the association between the inflammatory potential of diet and UC.

Methods

PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched up to July 31, 2018. Two reviewers independently selected the studies and extracted the data. The pooled risk ratio (RR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using the Stata12.0 software package.

Results

Nine case-control studies and three cohort studies including 83,197 subjects met the inclusion criteria. The overall meta-analysis results showed that individuals

SUBMITTER: Lu DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6166946 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature