ArticleNutrition and cancer2015
Dietary Inflammatory Index and Risk of Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer in a Case-Control Study from Iran.
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- Dietary inflammatory index and risk of major digestive tract cancers: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence of tobacco use among cancer patients in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of the relationship between Dietary Inflammatory Index and esophageal cancer risk.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Diet Quality and Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers Risk: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Assessment of Evidence Quality.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of the association between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and upper aerodigestive tract cancer risk.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Dietary Inflammatory Index and Site-Specific Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of the association between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and cancer outcomes.International journal of cancer · 2017Pooled it
- Association Between the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and Head and Neck Cancer Incidence-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Impact of a pro-inflammatory diet on upper gastrointestinal cancer risk: evidence from a population-based cohort in high-risk areas of China.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Impact of smoking and opium cessation on gastrointestinal cancer risk: A 15-year longitudinal study in Golestan Cohort.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Relationship of Certain Diseases and Dietary Inflammatory Index in Older Adults: A Narrative Review.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- Pro-Inflammatory Diet as a Risk Factor for Stomach Cancer: Findings from a Multicenter Study in Central and Western China.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
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- Association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Gastric Disease Risk: Findings from a Korean Population-Based Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The relationship between dietary patterns, dietary quality index, and dietary inflammatory index with the risk of all types of cancer: Golestan cohort study.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- A Higher Dietary Inflammatory Index Score is Associated with a Higher Risk of Incidence and Mortality of Cancer: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of preventive medicine · 2020Review
- Association between inflammatory potential of diet and risk of lung cancer among smokers in a prospective study in Singapore.European journal of nutrition · 2019Article
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- Perspective: The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)-Lessons Learned, Improvements Made, and Future Directions.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Diet and inflammation have been suggested to be important risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study, we examined the ability of the dietary inflammatory index (DII) to predict ESCC in a case-control study conducted in Iran. This study included 47 ESCC cases and 96 controls hospitalized for acute nonneoplastic diseases. The DII was computed based on dietary intake assessed by a previously validated food frequency questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) adjusted for age, energy, sex, body mass index, years of education, physical activity, smoking and gastroesophageal reflux. Subjects with higher DII scores (i.e., with a more proinflammatory diet) had a higher risk of ESCC, with the DII being used as both a continuous variable [ORcontinuous = 3.58, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.76-7.26; one unit increase corresponding to ≈16% of its range in the current study] and a categorical variable (ORdii>1.20 vs ≤1.20 = 8.24, 95% CI: 2.03-33.47). These results indicate that a proinflammatory diet is associated with increased risk of ESCC.
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