Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Eating fish reduces the chances of getting liver cancer?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 5 retrospective patient-control studies and 5 prospective cohort studies with a total of 3624 liver cancer patients.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found in case-control studies that eating a lot of fish compared to little, the chances of getting liver cancer are not significantly by 21% [RR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.59-1.06] reduced.
The researchers found in cohort studies that eating a lot of fish compared to little, the chances of getting liver cancer significantly with 18% [RR = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.70-0.96] reduced.
The researchers found when all studies were combined, that eating a lot of fish compared to little, the chances of getting liver cancer significantly with 18% [RR = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.71-0.94, I2 = 12.8%, p = 0.33] reduced.
The researchers found that the reduced risk remained significant in both stratified as sensitivity analyses.
The researchers found that 1 serving of fish per week the chance of getting leverkaner significantly with 6% [RR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.91-0.98, I2 = 0.0%, p = 0.74] reduced.
The researchers concluded that eating 1 serving (100 grams) of fish per week reduced the chances of getting liver cancer.
Original title:
Fish intake and risk of liver cancer: a meta-analysis by Huang RX, Duan YY and Hu Yes.
Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4304705/
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