Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

• Published in: Cancer causes & control Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 779 - 791
• Main Authors: Morais, Samantha, Costa, Adriana, Albuquerque, Gabriela, Araújo, Natália, Pelucchi, Claudio, Rabkin, Charles S., Liao, Linda M., Sinha, Rashmi, Zhang, Zuo-Feng, Hu, Jinfu, Johnson, Kenneth C., Palli, Domenico, Ferraroni, Monica, Bonzi, Rossella, Yu, Guo-Pei, López-Carrillo, Lizbeth, Malekzadeh, Reza, Tsugane, Shoichiro, Hidaka, Akihisa, Hamada, Gerson Shigueaki, Zaridze, David, Maximovitch, Dmitry, Vioque, Jesus, de la Hera, Manoli García, Moreno, Victor, Vanaclocha-Espi, Mercedes, Ward, Mary H., Pakseresht, Mohammadreza, Hernández-Ramirez, Raúl Ulises, López-Cervantes, Malaquias, Pourfarzi, Farhad, Mu, Lina, Kurtz, Robert C., Boccia, Stefania, Pastorino, Roberta, Lagiou, Areti, Lagiou, Pagona, Boffetta, Paolo, Camargo, M. Constanza, Curado, Maria Paula, Negri, Eva, La Vecchia, Carlo, Lunet, Nuno
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.05.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Case-Control Studies; Epidemiology; Food; Food intake; Gastric cancer; Helicobacter Infections - complications; Helicobacter pylori; Hematology; Humans; Oncology; Original Paper; Public Health; Risk Factors; Salt; Salty taste; Sodium; Sodium Chloride, Dietary - adverse effects; Stomach Neoplasms - epidemiology; Stomach Neoplasms - etiology; Taste; Consortium; Sodium, Dietary; Pooled analysis; Sodium chloride; Stomach neoplasms

Purpose Previous studies show that consuming foods preserved by salting increases the risk of gastric cancer, while results on the association between total salt or added salt and gastric cancer are less consistent and vary with the exposure considered. This study aimed to quantify the association b...