Dairy product consumption and development of cancer: an overview of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide a comprehensive systematic overview of current evidence from pooled analyses/meta-analyses and systematic reviews (PMASRs) pertaining to dairy consumption and incident cancer and/or all-cause or cancer-specific mortality.

Design

Overview of reviews.

Setting

Community setting.

Participants

The unit of analysis is PMASRs. A total of 42 PMASRs was included in this overview of reviews.

Interventions/exposures

Any dairy product consumption (eg, milk, yogurt, etc).

Primary and secondary outcomes measures

Primary outcome measure is development of any type of cancer. Secondary outcome measures are all-cause mortality and cancer-specific mortality.

Results

From 9693 citations identified, we included 42 PMASRs (52 study reports)

SUBMITTER: Jeyaraman MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6352799 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature