Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Previous studies into the relationship between eating carrots and let the risk of getting prostate cancer see inconsistent results. It was therefore carried out this review article.
Eating carrots lowers the chances of getting prostate cancer?
Study Design:
This overview article contained cohort studies.
There was no publication bias (Begg's funnel plot (p = 1,000) and Egger test (p = 0.804)).
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that eating carrots significantly the chance of getting prostate cancer by 18% [OR = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.70-0.97] reduced.
The researchers found that eating 1 serving of carrots a week the chances of getting prostate cancer significantly with 5% [OR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.90-0.99] reduced.
The researchers found that every 10 grams of carrots per day the chances of getting prostate cancer significantly with 4% [OR = 0.96, 95% CI = 0.94-0.99] reduced.
The researchers concluded eating carrots the chance of getting prostate cancer probably reduced. Probably because this overview article contained little cohort studies and there was substantial heterogeneity between the studies.
Original title:
Dietary carrot consumption and the risk of prostate cancer by Xu X, Cheng Y, [...], Xie L.
Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24519559
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