Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Epidemiological studies have the possible association between the consumption of tomato products and stomach cancer examined, but the relationship between eating tomato products and the risk of getting stomach cancer is controversial. It was therefore carried out this review article.
Eating tomatoes lowers the chances of getting stomach cancer?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 21 studies. The studies were case-control or cohort studies.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found in a pooled analysis of 21 studies that eating lots of tomatoes, the tomato products products compared with little chance of getting stomach cancer significantly with 27% reduced [odds ratio = 0.73, 95% CI = 0.60-0.90]. Significant is, there is a link at a 95% reliability.
The pooled odds ratio of the consumption of lycopene was 0.88 [95% CI = 0.67-1.16] and the pooled odds ratio of serum lycopene was 0.79 [95% CI = 0.59-1.07].
The researchers concluded that eating lots of tomato products the chance of getting stomach cancer may be reduced. Possible because there are errors in the studies were found, which could affect the results found.
Original title:
The role of tomato products and lycopene in the prevention of gastric cancer: A meta-analysis of an epidemiological studies by Yang T, Yang X, [...], Song Z.
Link:
http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877%2813%2900011-X/abstract
Additional information about El Mondo:
Risk factors of stomach cancer are:
- Smoking
- Certain type of stomach polyps
- Stomach Removal
- Chronic atrophic gastritis
- Helicobacter pylori