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Dietary flavonoid and lignan intake and gastric adenocarcinoma risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study

  • Raul Zamora-Ros*
  • , Antonio Agudo
  • , Leila Luján-Barroso
  • , Isabelle Romieu
  • , Pietro Ferrari
  • , Viktoria Knaze
  • , H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
  • , Max Leenders
  • , Ruth C. Travis
  • , Carmen Navarro
  • , Emilio Sánchez-Cantalejo
  • , Nadia Slimani
  • , Augustin Scalbert
  • , Veronika Fedirko
  • , Anette Hjartaker
  • , Dagrun Engeset
  • , Guri Skeie
  • , Heiner Boeing
  • , Jana Förster
  • , Kuanrong Li
  • Birgit Teucher, Claudia Agnoli, Rosario Tumino, Amalia Mattiello, Calogero Saieva, Ingegerd Johansson, Roger Stenling, Maria Luisa Redondo, Peter Wallström, Ulrika Ericson, Kay Tee Khaw, Angela A. Mulligan, Antonia Trichopoulou, Vardis Dilis, Michael Katsoulis, Petra H M Peeters, Lazslo Igali, Anne Tjønneland, Jytte Halkjær, Marina Touillaud, Florence Perquier, Guy Fagherazzi, Pilar Amiano, Eva Ardanaz, Lea Bredsdorff, Kim Overvad, Fulvio Ricceri, Elio Riboli, Carlos A. González
*Corresponding author for this work
  • National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
  • Institute Catala Oncologia
  • Aarhus University
  • Murcia Regional Health Council
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública
  • Public Health Direction
  • Human Genetics Foundation
  • Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme
  • Environment and Cancer
  • Slingeland Hospital
  • Unit of Cancer Epidemiology
  • University of Oxford
  • External unknown
  • Andalusian School of Public Health
  • University of Oslo
  • UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit
  • Cancer registry and Histopathology Unit
  • 'Civile
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Cariology
  • Umeå University
  • Lund University
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • The Medical School of Athens
  • University Medical Center Utrecht
  • Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • The Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
  • German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Fondazione IRCCS- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
  • Public Health Directorate
  • Nutrition Epidemiology Research Group
  • Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
  • University of Cambridge
  • Hellenic Health Foundation
  • Imperial College London
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP)
  • Navarre Public Health Institute

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Abstract

Background: Several experimental studies have suggested potential anticarcinogenic effects of flavonoids, although epidemiologic evidence for the impact of dietary flavonoids on risk of gastric cancer (GC) is limited. Objective: We investigated the association between intake of dietary flavonoids and lignans and incident GC. Design: The study followed 477,312 subjects (29.8% men) aged 35-70 y from 10 European countries who participated in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. Validated dietary questionnaires and lifestyle information were collected at baseline. A food-composition database on flavonoids and lignans was compiled by using data from USDA and Phenol-Explorer databases. Results: During an average follow-up of 11 y, 683 incident GC cases (57.8% men) were mostly validated by a panel of pathologists and used in this analysis. We observed a significant inverse association between total flavonoid intake and GC risk in women (HR: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.70, 0.94; for the continuous variable after log2 transformation) but not in men (HR: 0.97; 95% CI: 0.85, 1.09). In women, significant inverse associations with GC risk were also observed for intakes of some flavonoid subgroups (anthocyanidins, flavonols, flavones, and flavanols), particularly with intestinal type tumors for total flavonoid and flavanol intakes (P-heterogeneity < 0.1). After stratification by smoking status and sex, there was no significant heterogeneity in these associations between ever- and never-smokers. Conclusion: Total dietary flavonoid intake is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of GC in women.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1398-1408
Number of pages11
JournalAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Volume96
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2012

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