Majid Namaki, Maryam Hashemian, Abbas Arj, Hossein Poustchi, Gholamreza Roshandel, Amir Hossein Loghman, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Akram Pourshams, Masoud Khoshnia, Abdolsamad Gharavi, Nafiseh Abdolahi, Sima Besharat, Azita Hekmatdoost, Paul Brennan, Sanford M Dawsey, Farin Kamangar, Paolo Boffetta, Christian C Abnet, Reza Malekzadeh, Mahdi Sheikh
BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests overall diet quality, as assessed by dietary scores, may play a role in the development of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancers. However, the existing dietary scores are derived from high-income countries with different dietary habits than regions with the highest burden of UGI cancers, where limited data is available. This study aimed to investigate the association between overall diet quality and risk of esophageal and stomach cancers in a high-risk region for UGI cancers...
September 1, 2023: Archives of Iranian Medicine