SynthesisCancer causes & control : CCC2023
The association between red, processed and white meat consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Metabolic Dysfunction and Related Dietary Exposures in Relation to Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Review of the Evidence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
- A comprehensive evaluation of epidemiological evidence on processed meat intake in relation to cancer, cardiovascular, metabolic diseases and all-cause mortality: an umbrella review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Obesity and Pancreatic Diseases: From Inflammation to Oncogenesis and the Impact of Weight Loss Interventions.Nutrients · 2025Review
- The exposome as a target for primary prevention and a tool for early detection of pancreatic cancer.Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Association of red and processed meat consumption with cancer incidence and mortality: An umbrella review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Serum uric acid to albumin ratio and C-reactive protein as predictive biomarkers for chronic total occlusion and coronary collateral circulation quality.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- Pro-Inflammatory Food, Gut Microbiota, and Cardiovascular and Pancreatic Diseases.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- The Role of Hemp (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposeThe association between meat consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer has not been comprehensively investigated by different types of meat. The current study was conducted to evaluate this association.
methodsPubMed and Web of Science databases were used to search for prospective cohort studies on meat consumption and pancreatic cancer risk through May 2022. A meta-analysis was performed using random-effects models to combine study-specific relative risks (RR). The quality of the included studies was evaluated using the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale.
resultsTwenty prospective cohort studies including 3,934,909 participants and 11,315 pancreatic cancer cases were identified. The pooled RR of pancreatic cancer for the highest versus lowest white meat intake category was 1.14 (95% CI: 1.03-1.27). There was no significant association between consumption of red meat and processed meat and pancreatic cancer risk in the highest versus lowest analysis. In dose-response analyses, pooled RRs were 1.14 (95% CI: 1.01-1.28) for an increase in red meat consumption of 120 g per day and 1.26 (95% CI: 1.08-1.47) for an increase in white meat consumption of 100 g per day, respectively. Processed meat consumption showed neither a linear nor a non-linear association with pancreatic cancer risk.
conclusionFindings from this meta-analysis suggested that high consumption of red meat and white meat is associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Future prospective studies are warranted to confirm the association between meat consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer.
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