Papers/PMID:29933640
Association between Dietary Vitamin E Intake and Esophageal Cancer Risk: An Updated Meta-Analysis.
Nutrients2018The record
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α-tocopherol — decreases oesophageal cancer incidence
ModerateEvidence strength: moderate. Human evidence with one recorded weakness, or capped at moderate by its design or by unread numbers.Finding“In a comprehensive analysis, we found that dietary vitamin E intake was inversely associated with the esophageal cancer risk (OR = 0.47, 95% CI: 0.36–0.60) with significant heterogeneity (I2 = 67.5%; p < 0.001) (, Table 2).”
Quoted verbatim from Association between Dietary Vitamin E Intake and Esophageal Cancer Risk: An Updated Meta-Analysis.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Population
- Adults in 14 studies (1 cohort, 11 of the 12 articles case-control) comparing the highest versus lowest category of dietary vitamin E intake from food frequency questionnaires; all esophageal cancer subtypes pooled
Effect 0.47 odds ratio, 95% CI 0.36 to 0.6
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