Michele Sassano, Monireh Sadat Seyyedsalehi, Giulia Collatuzzo, Claudio Pelucchi, Rossella Bonzi, Monica Ferraroni, Domenico Palli, Guo-Pei Yu, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Lizbeth López-Carrillo, Nuno Lunet, Samantha Morais, David Zaridze, Dmitry Maximovich, Vicente Martín, Gemma Castano-Vinyals, Jesús Vioque, Sandra González-Palacios, Mary H Ward, Reza Malekzadeh, Mohammadreza Pakseresht, Raul Ulises Hernández-Ramirez, Malaquias López-Cervantes, Eva Negri, Federica Turati, Charles S Rabkin, Shoichiro Tsugane, Akihisa Hidaka, Areti Lagiou, Pagona Lagiou, M Constanza Camargo, Maria Paula Curado, Stefania Boccia, Carlo La Vecchia, Paolo Boffetta
BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest that dietary vitamin C is inversely associated with gastric cancer (GC), but most of them did not consider intake of fruit and vegetables. Thus, we aimed to evaluate this association within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project, a consortium of epidemiological studies on GC. METHODS: Fourteen case-control studies were included in the analysis (5362 cases, 11,497 controls). We estimated odds ratios (ORs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between dietary intake of vitamin C and GC, adjusted for relevant confounders and for intake of fruit and vegetables...
March 4, 2024: Gastric Cancer