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Yoghurt Intake and Gastric Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of 16 Studies of the StoP Consortium

  • Giulia Collatuzzo
  • , Eva Negri
  • , Claudio Pelucchi
  • , Rossella Bonzi
  • , Federica Turati
  • , Charles S. Rabkin
  • , Linda M. Liao
  • , Rashmi Sinha
  • , Domenico Palli
  • , Monica Ferraroni
  • , Lizbeth López-Carrillo
  • , Nuno Lunet
  • , Samantha Morais
  • , Demetrius Albanes
  • , Stephanie J. Weinstein
  • , Dominick Parisi
  • , David Zaridze
  • , Dmitry Maximovitch
  • , Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos
  • , José Juan Jiménez-Moleón
  • Jesus Vioque, Manoli Garcia de la Hera, Maria Paula Curado, Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Raúl Ulises Hernández-Ramírez, Malaquias López-Cervantes, Mary H. Ward, Shoichiro Tsugane, Akihisa Hidaka, Areti Lagiou, Pagona Lagiou, Zuo Feng Zhang, Antonia Trichopoulou, Anna Karakatsani, Maria Constanza Camargo, Carlo La Vecchia, Paolo Boffetta
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Milan
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer
  • Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica
  • University of Porto
  • Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR)
  • Information Management Services, Inc.
  • Blokhin Cancer Research Center
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • Universidad de Cantabria
  • University of Granada
  • Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA
  • Miguel Hernández University
  • A.C.Camargo Cancer Center
  • Yale University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • National Cancer Center Japan
  • National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
  • University of West Attica
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Harvard University
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Helenic Health Foundation
  • Attikon University Hospital

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Abstract

Background: Yoghurt can modify gastrointestinal disease risk, possibly acting on gut microbiota. Our study aimed at exploring the under-investigated association between yoghurt and gastric cancer (GC). Methods: We pooled data from 16 studies from the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project. Total yoghurt intake was derived from food frequency questionnaires. We calculated study-specific odds ratios (ORs) of GC and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for increasing categories of yoghurt consumption using univariate and multivariable unconditional logistic regression models. A two-stage analysis, with a meta-analysis of the pooled adjusted data, was conducted. Results: The analysis included 6278 GC cases and 14,181 controls, including 1179 cardia and 3463 non-cardia, 1191 diffuse and 1717 intestinal cases. The overall meta-analysis revealed no association between increasing portions of yoghurt intake (continuous) and GC (OR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.94–1.02). When restricting to cohort studies, a borderline inverse relationship was found (OR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.88–0.99). The adjusted and unadjusted OR were 0.92 (95% CI = 0.85–0.99) and 0.78 (95% CI = 0.73–0.84) for any vs. no yoghurt consumption and GC risk. The OR for 1 category of increase in yoghurt intake was 0.96 (95% CI = 0.91–1.02) for cardia, 1.03 (95% CI = 1.00–1.07) for non-cardia, 1.12 (95% CI = 1.07–1.19) for diffuse and 1.02 (95% CI = 0.97–1.06) for intestinal GC. No effect was seen within hospital-based and population-based studies, nor in men or women. Conclusions: We found no association between yoghurt and GC in the main adjusted models, despite sensitivity analyses suggesting a protective effect. Additional studies should further address this association.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1877
JournalNutrients
Volume15
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2023

Keywords

  • diet
  • gastric cancer
  • nutrition
  • yoghurt

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