SynthesisAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2018
Dietary Inflammatory Index and Site-Specific Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.
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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
- Dietary inflammatory index and the risk of esophageal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2025Pooled it
- The association between the dietary inflammatory index during pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes: a prospective cohort study and a meta-analysis.BMC endocrine disorders · 2025Pooled it
- The association between empirical dietary inflammatory pattern and risk of cancer and cancer-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- 2022 Update on Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Risk Factors-A Systematic Review.European urology · 2023Pooled it
- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index and Aging Biomarkers/Conditions: A Systematic Review and Dose-response Meta-analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Pooled it
- Diets, Dietary Patterns, Single Foods and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and breast cancer risk: an updated meta-analysis of observational studies.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- The role of diet in renal cell carcinoma incidence: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies.BMC medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Association between dietary inflammatory index and oral cancer risk: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and pancreatic cancer risk: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- The Dietary Inflammatory Index and Human Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Dietary Inflammatory Index in relation to bone mineral density, osteoporosis risk and fracture risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2021Pooled it
- Dietary Inflammatory Index and Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and risk of gynecological cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Journal of gynecologic oncology · 2019Pooled it
- Diet-Associated Inflammation Modulates Inflammation and WNT Signaling in the Rectal Mucosa, and the Response to Supplementation with Dietary Fiber.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Trial
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- Anti-inflammatory Diet Before Diagnosis and Survival After Urologic Cancer: Findings from Two Swedish Prospective Cohorts.European urology open science · 2026Article
- Association Between the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and Head and Neck Cancer Incidence-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Influence of healthy lifestyle on the incidence and survival of cancer and its comorbidities: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Existing evidence suggests a link between the inflammatory potential of diet and risk of cancer. This study aimed to test the linear and potential nonlinear dose-response associations of the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), as being representative of inflammatory features of the diet, and site-specific cancer risk. A systematic search was conducted with the use of PubMed and Scopus from 2014 to November 2017. Prospective cohort or case-control studies reporting the risk estimates of any cancer type for ≥3 categories of the DII were selected. Studies that reported the association between continuous DII score and cancer risk were also included. Pooled RRs were calculated by using a random-effects model. Eleven prospective cohort studies (total n = 1,187,474) with 28,614 incident cases and 29 case-control studies with 19,718 cases and 33,229 controls were identified. The pooled RRs for a 1-unit increment in the DII were as follows: colorectal cancer, 1.06 (95% CI: 1.04, 1.08; I2 = 72.5%; n = 9); breast cancer, 1.03 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.07; I2 = 84.0%; n = 7); prostate cancer, 1.06 (95% CI: 0.97, 1.15; I2 = 56.2%; n = 6); pancreatic cancer, 1.16 (95% CI: 1.05, 1.28; I2 = 61.6%; n = 2); ovarian cancer, 1.08 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.13; I2 = 0%; n = 2); esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, 1.24 (95% CI: 1.10, 1.38; I2 = 64.3%; n = 2); renal cell carcinoma, 1.08 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.13; I2 = 0%; n = 2); and esophageal adenocarcinoma, 1.26 (95% CI: 1.13, 1.39; I2 = 0%; n = 2). A nonlinear dose-response meta-analysis showed that, after a somewhat unchanged risk within initial scores of the DII, the risk of colorectal cancer increased linearly with increasing DII score. In the analyses of breast and prostate cancers, the risk increased with a very slight trend with increasing DII score. In conclusion, the results showed that dietary habits with high inflammatory features might increase the risk of site-specific cancers.
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