Red and processed meat and pancreatic cancer risk: a meta-analysis
Sun Y, He X, Sun Y
Frontiers in nutrition · 7 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (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
- Independent funding
Based on full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2023-09-27 · Front Nutr · vol. 10 · p. 1249407
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Cited
- 10 citations · more than 56% of similar papers · 0.5× the field average
- References
- 37 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Agriculture, Water, and Health
- Keywords
- Pancreatic cancer, Red meat, Food science, Medicine, Cancer, Risk analysis (engineering), Business, Environmental health, Computer science, Internal medicine, Biology
5 authors
From CN
- Yudi SunChina Medical University
- Yudi Sun · correspondingChina Medical University
- Xinyi HeChina Medical University
- Yan SunChina Medical University
- Yan Sun · correspondingChina Medical University
Abstract
Background
The relationship between red and processed meat consumption and pancreatic cancer risk is controversial and no study has looked specifically at the correlation for 6 years. We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the evidence about the association between them.
Methods
We systematically searched PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library for studies of red or processed meat consumption and pancreatic cancer published from December 2016 to July 2022. We performed random-effects models to pool the relative risks from individual studies. Subgroup analyses were used to figure out heterogeneity. We also performed publication bias analysis.
Results
Seven cohort studies and one case-control study that contained a total of 7,158 pancreatic cancer cases from 805,177 participants were eligible for inclusion. The combined RRs (95% CI) comparing highest and lowest categories were 1.07 (95% CI: 0.91-1.26; p = 0.064) for red meat and 1.04 (95% CI: 0.81-1.33; p = 0.006) for processed meat with statistically significant heterogeneity.
Conclusion
This meta-analysis suggested that red and processed meat consumption has no relationship with pancreatic cancer risk.
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