ArticlePublic health nutrition2013
The role of number of meals, coffee intake, salt and type of cookware on colorectal cancer development in the context of the Mediterranean diet.
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- Pooled it
- Temporal Eating Patterns and Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analysis: eating frequency and risk of colorectal cancer.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014Pooled it
- Correlating food and nutritional patterns with cancers in the pediatric oncology population at two specialized hospitals in Tanzania.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between Diet-related Behaviour and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Scoping Review.Journal of cancer prevention · 2022Article
- Consumption of Yoghurt and Other Dairy Products and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Iran: The IROPICAN Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Unrestrained eating behavior and risk of digestive system cancers: a prospective cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Article
- Cancer and Mediterranean Diet: A Review.Nutrients · 2019Review
- Coffee Intake, Recurrence, and Mortality in Stage III Colon Cancer: Results From CALGB 89803 (Alliance).Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2015Observational
- Impact of Mediterranean Diet on Cancer: Focused Literature Review.Cancer genomics & proteomicsReview
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the association between dietary behaviours and colorectal cancer (CRC) in the context of the Mediterranean diet.
designCase-control study.
settingAll patients (cases) were recruited from Saint Savvas Cancer Hospital and Alexandra General Hospital in Athens, Greece. Controls were voluntarily selected from the general population and matched to cases by age group (±10 years) and sex. SUBJECTS: Two hundred and fifty cases with newly diagnosed CRC (mean age 63 (sd 12) years, 59·6 % males) and 250 controls matched on age and sex were studied. A standardized questionnaire assessing sociodemographic, clinical, lifestyle, dietary characteristics and nutritional behaviours was applied. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the aforementioned factors in addition to the MedDietScore (an index that evaluates adherence to the Mediterranean diet) on CRC development.
resultsThe higher the daily number of meals, the lower the likelihood of having CRC (OR = 0·74, 95 % CI 0·61, 0·89); coffee drinking was associated with higher likelihood of having CRC (OR = 3·27, 95 % CI 1·09, 9·8); the use of non-stick cookware was positively associated with CRC (OR = 1·57, 95 % CI 1·02, 2·4). However, these associations slightly lost their significance when adherence to the Mediterranean diet was taken into account. Moreover, a 1/75 increase in the modified-MedDietScore plus the aforementioned nutritional behaviours was associated with 13 % lower odds (95 % CI 0·83, 0·91, P < 0·001) of having CRC.
conclusionsNutritional behaviours in addition to dietary habits should be taken into account in detecting individuals prone to the development of CRC.
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