SynthesisBMC public health2015
Association between alcohol consumption and the risk of ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective observational studies.
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- Alcohol consumption and its association with cancer, cardiovascular, liver and brain diseases: a systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- Alcohol and Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses Base on Prospective Cohort Studies.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Association between dietary intake and risk of ovarian cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Plant-Based Diets and Ovarian Cancer Risk.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Association of smoking, alcohol, and coffee consumption with the risk of ovarian cancer and prognosis: a mendelian randomization study.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- NIAPU: network-informed adaptive positive-unlabeled learning for disease gene identification.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Review
- Review of Mendelian Randomization Studies on Ovarian Cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Review
- Association between circadian geneOncology letters · 2018Article
- Mediation analysis of alcohol consumption, DNA methylation, and epithelial ovarian cancer.Journal of human genetics · 2018Article
- Risk Model in Women with Ovarian Cancer Without Mutations.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2018Article
- Epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a review.Cancer biology & medicine · 2017Article
- Lifestyle changes and the risk of developing endometrial and ovarian cancers: opportunities for prevention and management.International journal of women's health · 2016Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol consumption has been inconsistently associated with the risk of ovarian cancer. The purpose of this study was to summarize the data from prospective cohort studies on the relationship between alcohol consumption and ovarian cancer using a meta-analytic approach.
methodsWe performed electronic searches of PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library in May 2014 to identify studies that examined the effects of alcohol consumption on the incidence of ovarian cancer. Only prospective cohort studies that reported effect estimates about the incidence of ovarian cancer with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of alcohol intake were included.
resultsCollectively, we included 13 prospective studies that reported on data from 1,996,841 individuals and included 5,857 cases of ovarian cancer. Alcohol consumption had little to no effect on ovarian cancer incidence when compared to non-drinkers (risk ratio [RR], 1.03; 95% CI, 0.96-1.10; P = 0.473). Similarly, low (RR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.93-1.00; P = 0.059), moderate (RR, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.92-1.27; P = 0.333), and heavy (RR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.88-1.12; P = 0.904) alcohol consumption was not associated with the risk of ovarian cancer. Furthermore, subgroup analyses suggested that low alcohol intake was associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer whereas heavy alcohol intake was associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer in multiple subpopulations.
conclusionsOur study suggests that alcohol intake is not associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer. Subgroup analyses indicated that alcohol consumption might be associated with the risk of ovarian cancer in specific population or in studies with specific characteristics.
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