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Ultra-processed food consumption and mortality among patients with stages I-III colorectal cancer: a prospective cohort study.
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- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Cancer Risk: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Journal of food science · 2026Pooled it
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of the host-tumor metabolic interface: Implications for precision nutritional oncology.Genes & diseases · 2026Review
- Ultra-processed Food Intake and Long-Term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality among Patients with Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Analysis of the Alpha Omega Cohort.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Post-diagnostic ultra-processed food exposure in gastrointestinal cancers: scoping review with narrative synthesis and clinical implications.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Ultra-processed foods consumption and subsequent mortality in a cohort of Black breast cancer survivors.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Metabolomic pattern of ultraprocessed food intake and its association with colorectal cancer risk.Gut · 2025Article
- Association of air pollution exposure and genetic susceptibility with increased risk of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection.Nature cardiovascular research · 2025Article
- Immunocyte-mediated food intakes and colorectal cancer causal relationship insights from a large-scale Mendelian randomization study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Ultra-processed foods and health: are we correctly interpreting the available evidence?European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Review
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- Ultra-Processed Foods and the Impact on Cardiometabolic Health: The Role of Diet Quality.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2024Review
- Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts and a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are emerging as a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC), yet how post-diagnostic UPF intake may impact CRC prognosis remains unexplored. Methods: Data collected from food frequency questionnaires were used to estimate intakes of total UPFs and UPF subgroups (serving/d) at least 6 months but less than 4 years post-diagnosis among 2498 patients diagnosed with stages I-III CRC within the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study during 1980-2016. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of all-cause, CRC- and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-specific mortality in association with UPF consumption were estimated using an inverse probability weighted multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model, adjusted for confounders. Findings: The mean (SD) age of patients at diagnosis was 68.5 (9.4) years. A total of 1661 deaths were documented, including 321 from CRC and 335 from CVD. Compared to those in the lowest quintile (median = 3.6 servings/d), patients in the highest quintile (median = 10 servings/d) of post-diagnostic UPF intake had higher CVD mortality (HR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.13-2.40) but not CRC or all-cause mortality. Among UPF subgroups, higher consumption of fats/condiments/sauces was associated with a higher risk of CVD-specific mortality (highest vs. lowest quintile of intake, HR = 1.96, 95% CI = 1.41-2.73), and higher intake of ice cream/sherbet was associated with an increased risk of CRC-specific mortality (highest vs. lowest quintile, HR = 1.86, 95% CI: 1.33-2.61). No statistically significant association was found between UPF subgroups and overall mortality. Interpretation: Higher post-diagnostic intake of total UPFs and fats/condiments/sauces in CRC survivors is associated with higher CVD mortality, and higher ice cream/sherbet intake is linked to higher CRC mortality. Funding: US National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society.
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