Preventable Cancer Burden Associated With Poor Diet in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet is an important risk factor for cancer that is amenable to intervention. Estimating the cancer burden associated with diet informs evidence-based priorities for nutrition policies to reduce cancer burden in the United States.

Methods

Using a comparative risk assessment model that incorporated nationally representative data on dietary intake, national cancer incidence, and estimated associations of diet with cancer risk from meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies, we estimated the annual number and proportion of new cancer cases attributable to suboptimal intakes of seven dietary factors among US adults ages 20 years or older, and by population subgroups.

Results

An estimated 80 110 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] = 76 316 to 83 657) new cancer case

SUBMITTER: Zhang FF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6649723 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature