ArticleClinical nutrition research2021
The Lack of Association between Plant-Based Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer: a Hospital-Based Case-Control Study.
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- Healthful and unhealthful plant-based diets and site-specific cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.European journal of nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Associations Between Dietary Factors and Breast Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review of Evidence from the MENA Region.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk, prognosis, and quality of life: A systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Plant-based dietary patterns and risk of breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Review
- Association Between Plant-Based Diet Index and Breast Cancer Risk Stratified by Menopausal and Hormone Receptor Status: A Case-Control Study Among Korean Women.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Plant-based dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC) study.European journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Plant-based diet, inflammation biomarkers and body composition among women with breast cancer: the Pathways Study.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- The association between plant-based diet indices and the risk of breast cancer: a case-control study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Pro-vegetarian dietary pattern and risk of breast cancer: a case-control study.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Article
- Dietary Patterns Associated with Breast Cancer in the Middle East: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Long-term adherence to healthful and unhealthful plant-based diets and breast cancer risk overall and by hormone receptor and histologic subtypes among postmenopausal females.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Scoping review of the association of plant-based diet quality with health outcomes.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Our purpose was to assess the association between plant-based dietary patterns and breast cancer (BrCa) among Iranian women. This hospital-based case-control study included 150 newly diagnosed BrCa cases and 150 age-matched controls from the Cancer Research Center, Imam Khomeini hospital, Iran. Three indices of a plant-based diet were first calculated: plant-based diet index (PDI), the healthy PDI (hPDI), and the unhealthy PDI (uPDI). In the overall PDI, all plant foods scored positively. In hPDI and uPDI, healthy and less healthy plant foods scored positive, respectively. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) in the highest adherence of PDI was 1.00 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.55-1.83). In hPDI, 0.89 (95% CI, 0.49-1.62); in uPDI, 1.80 (95% CI, 0.95-3.42). The adjusted OR after subgroup analysis for body mass index (BMI) was as follow, BMI > 25: 0.77(95% CI, 0.37-1.61) comparing highest with the lowest tertile of PDI, 0.91(95% CI, 0.44-1.89) comparing highest with the lowest tertile of hPDI and this value for uPDI was 2.04 (95% CI, 0.91-4.56). BMI < 25: OR for top tertile of PDI was 1.82 (95% CI, 0.48-6.93), top tertile of hPDI was 1.47 (95% CI, 0.35-6.22) and top tertile of uPDI was 2.29 (95% CI, 0.54-9.70). Our results revealed no significant association between none of the PDIs and the chance of BrCa in Iranian women. Continued and expanded research, evaluated by different methods and BrCa is urgently needed to build the foundation for future progress in evidence-based public health efforts.
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