ArticleBMJ nutrition, prevention & health2022
Consumption of industrial processed foods and risk of premenopausal breast cancer among Latin American women: the PRECAMA study.
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- Breast cancer and its determinants in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Association between ultra-processed food consumption and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Association between ultra-processed foods and risk of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
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- Ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of breast cancer incidence and death: a prospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Consumption of ultraprocessed foods and breast density in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Ultra-processed foods: Implications for gastrointestinal health.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Ultra-Processed Food and Frailty: Evidence from a Prospective Cohort Study and Implications for Future Research.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The association between ultra-processed foods intake and the odds of prostate cancer: a case-control study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between processed and ultra-processed food intake and the risk of breast cancer: a case-control study.BMC cancer · 2024Article
- Assessing nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards breast cancer prevention among female students at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2024Article
- Degree of food processing and breast cancer risk: a prospective study in 9 European countries.Food production, processing and nutrition · 2024Article
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- Dietary Heat-Treatment Contaminants Exposure and Cancer: A Case Study from Turkey.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Categorising ultra-processed foods in large-scale cohort studies: evidence from the Nurses' Health Studies, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and the Growing Up Today Study.Journal of nutritional science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ultra-processed food intake has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in Western populations. No data are available in the Latin American population although the consumption of ultra-processed foods is increasing rapidly in this region. We evaluated the association of ultra-processed food intake to breast cancer risk in a case-control study including 525 cases (women aged 20-45 years) and 525 matched population-based controls from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. The degree of processing of foods was classified according to the NOVA classification. Overall, the major contributors to ultra-processed food intake were ready-to-eat/heat foods (18.2%), cakes and desserts (16.7%), carbonated and industrial fruit juice beverages (16.7%), breakfast cereals (12.9%), sausages and reconstituted meat products (12.1%), industrial bread (6.1%), dairy products and derivatives (7.6%) and package savoury snacks (6.1%). Ultra-processed food intake was positively associated with the risk of breast cancer in adjusted models (OR
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