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Alcohol consumption and the risk of Barrett's esophagus: a comprehensive meta-analysis.
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- Lifestyle interventions can reduce the risk of Barrett's esophagus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies involving 250,157 participants.Cancer medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Increased Prevalence of Barrett's Esophagus in Taiwan: A Prospective Multicenter Study.Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2025Article
- Long-term risk factors for developing Barrett's oesophagus in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a longitudinal cohort study.BMJ open gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Barrett's esophagus: results from an Italian cohort with tight endoscopic surveillance.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Risks of substance uses, alcohol flush response, Helicobacter pylori infection and upper digestive tract diseases-An endoscopy cross-sectional study.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Risk factors for Barrett's esophagus in young adults who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in a health examination center.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2019Article
- Esophageal Motor Disorders Are a Strong and Independant Associated Factor of Barrett's Esophagus.Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility · 2018Article
- Alcohol and tea consumption are associated with asymptomatic erosive esophagitis in Taiwanese men.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Several studies have been proposed to investigate the association between alcohol consumption and risk of Barrett's esophagus (BE), but as of yet, no quantitative summary of the literature to clarify the relationship between them. In our study, twenty eligible cohort studies involving 42925 participants were identified. Combined relative risk (RR) ratios for the highest versus lowest alcohol consumption levels were calculated. The alcohol dose-response analysis was performed to investigate the association between the increment consumption of 10 g/d alcohol and the risk of developing BE. Subgroup analyses were used to examine heterogeneity across the studies. A combined RR of 0.98 (0.62-1.34) was found when comparing highest vs. lowest alcohol consumption levels for BE. An inverse association between alcohol and incidence of BE (RR 0.51; 95% CI: 0.055-0.96) was demonstrated in women. Moreover, Asian drinkers had a relative higher risk of BE (RR 1.34; 95% CI: 1.11-1.56) compared with Western drinkers. In conclusion, our results showed that overall alcohol consumption was not associated with increased BE incidence. The limited data available on alcohol consumption supports a tentative inversion of alcohol consumption with BE risk in women, while Asian drinkers tend to have a higher risk of BE.
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