SynthesisEuropean journal of nutrition2018
Red and processed meat consumption and risk of bladder cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
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- Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer in the Arab World: 2019 Global Burden of Disease Data.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary patterns and risk of bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary consumption of cruciferous vegetables and bladder cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations.Appetite · 2021Pooled it
- Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.European journal of epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- Association between Outdoor Air Pollution and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Pooled it
- Anti-inflammatory Diet Before Diagnosis and Survival After Urologic Cancer: Findings from Two Swedish Prospective Cohorts.European urology open science · 2026Article
- Cooked meat-derived extracellular vesicles ssc-miR-1 induces metabolic disorders in the mice liver via PI3k/AKT pathway.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- Lead Exposure and Bladder Cancer: Molecular Insights from TCGA RNA-Seq and Toxicogenomic Integration.Cancers · 2025Article
- Risk factors behind the global lung cancer burden: a pan-database exploration.Translational lung cancer research · 2025Article
- Low-carbohydrate diet score and risk of bladder cancer: Findings from a prospective cohort study.BJUI compass · 2025Article
- Association of red and processed meat consumption with cancer incidence and mortality: An umbrella review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- CD36: The Bridge between Lipids and Tumors.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Long Follow-Up Times Weaken Observational Diet-Cancer Study Outcomes: Evidence from Studies of Meat and Cancer Risk.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Molecular Markers for Bladder Cancer Screening: An Insight into Bladder Cancer and FDA-Approved Biomarkers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: an overview of epidemiology, burden, and unmet needs.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- Diet quality, common genetic polymorphisms, and bladder cancer risk in a New England population-based study.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Review
- Dietary B group vitamin intake and the bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesSeveral epidemiological studies have analyzed the associations between red and processed meat and bladder cancer risk but the shape and strength of the associations are still unclear. Therefore, we conducted a dose-response meta-analysis to quantify the potential association between red and processed meat and bladder cancer risk.
methodsRelevant studies were identified by searching the PubMed database through January 2016 and reviewing the reference lists of the retrieved articles. Results were combined using random-effects models.
resultsFive cohort studies with 3262 cases and 1,038,787 participants and 8 cases-control studies with 7009 cases and 27,240 participants met the inclusion criteria. Red meat was linearly associated with bladder cancer risk in case-control studies, with a pooled RR of 1.51 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13, 2.02) for every 100 g increase per day, while no association was observed among cohort studies (P heterogeneity across study design = 0.02). Based on both case-control and cohort studies, the pooled relative risk (RR) for every 50 g increase of processed meat per day was 1.20 (95% CI 1.06, 1.37) (P heterogeneity across study design = 0.22).
conclusionsThis meta-analysis suggests that processed meat may be positively associated with bladder cancer risk. A positive association between red meat and risk of bladder cancer was observed only in case-control studies, while no association was observe in prospective studies.
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