ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2007
Prospective study of cured meats consumption and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in men.
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- Meat Consumption Associated with the Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of the role of vitamin insufficiencies and supplementation in COPD.Respiratory research · 2010Pooled it
- The Role of Nutrition in the Development and Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Air Pollution and Diet: Potential Interacting Exposures in Asthma.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Diet quality, food intake and incident adult-onset asthma: a Lifelines Cohort Study.European journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Healthful and Unhealthful Plant-Based Diets and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Adults: Prospective Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The Role of Nutritional Factors in Asthma: Challenges and Opportunities for Epidemiological Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Association between processed meat intake and asthma symptoms in the French NutriNet-Santé cohort.European journal of nutrition · 2020Observational
- Relationship between dietary patterns and COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis.ERJ open research · 2020Review
- Processed Meat Intake and Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among Middle-aged Women.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
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- Red meat, processed meat, and other dietary protein sources and risk of overall and cause-specific mortality in The Netherlands Cohort Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Long-term unprocessed and processed red meat consumption and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective cohort study of women.European journal of nutrition · 2019Article
- Serum phosphate levels are related to all-cause, cardiovascular and COPD mortality in men.European journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Respiratory Health Symptoms among Schoolchildren in Relation to Possible Food-Related Risk and Protective Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Mortality from different causes associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and nitrites in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: population based cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2017Article
- NO-Rich Diet for Lifestyle-Related Diseases.Nutrients · 2015Review
- Nutritional advances in patients with respiratory diseases.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2015Review
- Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among US women and men: prospective study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2015Article
- Healthy behaviours and COPD.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2014Article
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Abstract
Cured meats are high in nitrites. Nitrites generate reactive nitrogen species that may cause damage to the lung. The objective is to assess the relation between frequent consumption of cured meats and the risk of newly diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Between 1986 and 1998, the authors identified 111 self-reported cases of newly diagnosed COPD among 42,915 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. The cumulative average intake of cured meats consumption (processed meats, bacon, hot dogs) was calculated from food frequency questionnaires administrated in 1986, 1990, and 1994 and divided according to servings per week (never/almost never, <1 serving/week, 1-3 servings/week, 4-6 servings/week, at least once/day). After adjustment for age, smoking status, pack-years, pack-years squared, energy intake, race/ethnicity, US region, body mass index, and physical activity, the consumption of cured meats was positively associated with the risk of newly diagnosed COPD (for highest vs. lowest intake: relative risk = 2.64, 95% confidence interval: 1.39, 5.00; p(trend) = 0.002). In contrast to these findings, the consumption of cured meats was not associated with the risk of adult-onset asthma. These data suggest that cured meat may worsen the adverse effects of smoking on risk of COPD.
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