Dietary inflammatory index and risk of gynecological cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There has been growing body of literatures showing that chronic inflammation might play an important role in cancer development. This meta-analysis aimed to assess the association between the dietary inflammation index (DII) score and gynecological cancers.

Methods

A systematic search of PubMed, EMBASE and Web of Science up until October 20, 2018 was carried out to retrieve all related cohort and case-control studies. The summary risk assessments were pooled using random-effects models. The dose-response relationship was estimated by linear relationship model.

Results

Twelve case-control studies (10,774 cases/15,958 controls) and six prospective cohort studies (330,363 participants/23,133 incident cases) were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled adjust

SUBMITTER: Liu ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6424848 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature