Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Systematic literature searches of case-control studies to evaluate the relationship between salt intake and gastric cancer show a positive relationship, but a quantitative analysis of longitudinal cohort studies is missing. It was therefore carried out this review article.
Eating salt increases the chance of getting stomach cancer?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 10 cohort studies with 268718 participants, of which 1474 people who got stomach cancer. The follow-up duration was 6-15 years. There was no question of heterogeneity between the studies and publication bias.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that compared with the lowest salt intake, the highest salt intake the likelihood of getting stomach cancer significantly with 68% [RR = 1.68, 95% CI = 1.17-2.41, p = 0.005] did increase. Significant is, there is a link at a 95% reliability.
The researchers found that compared with the lowest salt intake, the relatively high salt intake the likelihood of getting stomach cancer significantly with 41% [RR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.03-1.93, p = 0.032] did increase.
The associations was stronger among the Japanese population and a higher consumption of selected salt-rich foods was also associated with a high risk.
The researchers concluded that a high salt intake the likelihood of getting stomach cancer did increase.
Original title:
Habitual salt intake and risk of gastric cancer: A meta-analysis of prospective studies by D'Elia L, Rossi G, [...], Strazzullo P.
Link:
http://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614%2812%2900005-2/fulltext
Additional information about El Mondo:
The Health Council recommends up to 6 grams of salt per day. 6 grams of salt is equivalent to 2400 mg sodium.
A salt of America product contains nutritional seen at least 0.5 grams of sodium per 100 grams (100 ml).
A low-sodium product contains nutritional seen up to 0.1 grams of sodium per 100 grams (100 ml) or up to 0.12 grams of sodium per 100 kcal.
Read more about sodium sodium in the presentation.