Associating the risk of three urinary cancers with obesity and overweight: an overview with evidence mapping of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between cancer with overweight and obesity has been extensively reported. However, the association between urinary cancers with these risk factors remains unclear, with existing reports showing conflicting findings. The current review, therefore, sought to clarify the latter association by assessing the methodological and reporting quality of existing systematic reviews on the subject.

Methods

We first screened PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases for relevant literature and subjected the resulting articles to meta-analysis. We adopted the AMSTAR-2 and PRISMA checklists for assessing methodological and reporting quality, respectively, then performed meta-analyses to determine the relationship between incidence and mortality of three type

SUBMITTER: Shi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7888186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature