Associations between the consumption of red meat and processed meat and the incidence of colorectal cancer in Asia: a meta-analysis
Liao Z, Wu W, Xia S, Yu L, Xu Z, Li Y
Frontiers in medicine · 1 citation
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
- 2025-06-09 · Front Med (Lausanne) · vol. 12 · p. 1555717
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Cited
- 1 citation · more than 74% of similar papers · 0.9× the field average
- References
- 15 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Keywords
- Colorectal cancer, Incidence (geometry), Red meat, Processed meat, Meta-analysis, Consumption (sociology), Medicine, Environmental health, Cancer, Internal medicine, Food science, Biology, Pathology, Sociology, Social science
6 authors
From CN
- Zhiyuan LiaoGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Wenjiang WuGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Shijun Xia · correspondingGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Linchong YuGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Zhigang XuGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Yue LiGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Abstract
Objective
This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between the consumption of red meat and processed meat and the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Asia and provide a scientific basis for reducing the incidence of CRC.
Methods
PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and other databases were searched electronically to collect studies on the correlation between the consumption of red meat and processed meat and the incidence of CRC in Asia. After the quality evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale, meta-analyses of the selected studies were performed using RevMan 5.4.1. The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were combined, and the heterogeneity among the included studies was analyzed via sensitivity analysis. I 2 was used to evaluate the heterogeneity among the included studies.
Results
Twelve articles were included, which involved 13,292 and 12,544 cases in the case and control groups, respectively. The results of the meta-analysis revealed that in the study of the correlation between the consumption of red meat and the incidence of colon cancer, the combined OR was 2.14 (P P = 0.006); that for the consumption of red meat and the incidence of rectal cancer, the OR was 2.42 (P = 0.0009); and that for the consumption of processed meat and the incidence of CRC, the combined OR was 1.51 (P > 0.05).
Conclusion
The results suggest that red meat is a risk factor for the incidence of colon, colorectal, and rectal cancers. However, no significant correlation was found between the consumption of processed meat and the incidence of CRC.
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