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Objectives:
Does dietary carrot intake reduce breast cancer risk?
Study design:
This review article included a total of 10 articles involving 13,747 cases (women with breast cancer).
A significant heterogeneity was observed among studies.
Results and conclusions:
The investigators found for the highest compared with the lowest dietary carrot intake a significantly reduced risk of 21% for breast cancer [OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.68 to 0.90]. Omission of any single study (=sensitivity analysis) had little effect on the combined risk estimate.
The investigators found in the subgroup analyses separated by study design, the inverse associations were more pronounced in the case-control studies than in the cohort studies, while the associations did not significantly differ by geographical region, study quality, exposure assessment.
The investigators concluded that high intake of dietary carrot reduces breast cancer risk.
Original title:
Association between dietary carrot intake and breast cancer: A meta-analysis by Chen H, Shao F, […], Miao Q.
Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30212943
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