No association between egg intake and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis
Xie B, He H
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 13 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
- Intake measured by
- Not stated
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2012-09-30 · Asian Pac J Cancer Prev · vol. 13 · issue 9 · pp. 4677–4681
- Publisher
- West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention
- Cited
- 22 citations · more than 45% of similar papers · 0.3× the field average
- References
- 33 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nutritional Studies and Diet · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- Prostate cancer, Medicine, Oncology, Meta-analysis, Cancer, Prostate, Gynecology, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, prostatic neoplasms, diet, confidence intervals, odds ratio, risk factors, case-control studies, cohort studies, eggs, male
2 authors
From CN
- Bo XieTongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province
- Huadong He
Abstract
Objective
Egg consumption has been suggested to increase the risk of colorectal and some other cancers. The present study summarized and quantified the current evidence relating dietary intake of eggs and prostate cancer.
Materials and methods
Literature searches were conducted to identify peer-reviewed manuscripts published up to July 2012. Twenty manuscripts from nine cohort studies and 11 case-control studies were identified. Summary risk estimates with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for case-control and cohort studies separately.
Results
Neither the case-control not the cohort studies showed any association of prostate cancer incidence with egg consumption (case-control studies: odds ratio 1.09, 95% CI 0.86-1.31; cohort studies: relative risk 0.97, 95% CI 0.97-1.07). The results were consistent in subgroup analysis. Furthermore, no association was observed between egg consumption and prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Conclusions
Our analyses provided no evidence of a significant influence of egg consumption on prostate cancer incidence and mortality. However, more studies, particularly large prospective studies, are needed.
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