SynthesisPloS one2018
Meta-analysis of the association between the inflammatory potential of diet and urologic cancer risk.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Urologic Cancers: A Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Pooled it
- 2022 Update on Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Risk Factors-A Systematic Review.European urology · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary patterns and risk of bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 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
- Meta-analysis of the relationship between Dietary Inflammatory Index and esophageal cancer risk.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and the risk of prostate cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Association Between the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and Head and Neck Cancer Incidence-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Anti-Inflammatory Diet Index and risk of renal cell carcinoma.British journal of cancer · 2025Article
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- Association between the dietary inflammatory index and risk of lung cancer: a multi-centered case-control study.BMC cancer · 2024Article
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- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Urologic Cancers: True Association or Bias?Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- The relationship between dietary inflammatory potential and cancer outcomes among cancer survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.Translational oncology · 2023Article
- Kidney Cancer Integrative Oncology: Possible Options for Care.Current oncology reports · 2023Review
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- Exploration of biomarkers from a pilot weight management study for men undergoing radical prostatectomy.Urologic oncology · 2021Article
- Mutational Landscape and Environmental Effects in Bladder Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and Cancer Risk in Korea: A Prospective Cohort Study within the KoGES-HEXA Study.Nutrients · 2019Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe inflammatory potential of diet has been shown to have an association with the risk of several cancer types, but the evidence is inconsistent regarding the related risk of urologic cancer (UC). Therefore, we conducted the present meta-analysis to investigate the association between the inflammatory potential of diet and UC.
methodsPubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched up to July 31, 2018. Two reviewers independently selected the studies and extracted the data. The pooled risk ratio (RR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using the Stata12.0 software package.
resultsNine case-control studies and three cohort studies including 83,197 subjects met the inclusion criteria. The overall meta-analysis results showed that individuals with the highest category of DII (dietary inflammatory index) were associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer (RR = 1.62, 95% CI: 1.30-2.02); subgroup analysis showed consistent results. For kidney and bladder cancer, significant positive associations were found in individuals with the highest category of DII score; however, no significant association was found between DII and the risk of urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC).
conclusionAvailable data suggest that more pro-inflammatory diets are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer. However, further well designed large-scaled cohort studies are warranted to provide more conclusive evidence.
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