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The relationship between processed meat, red meat, and risk of types of cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

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FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.942155

Keywords

processed meat; red meat; cancer; Mendelian randomization; genome-wide association studies

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  1. Foundation of Science and Technology, Department of Sichuan Province
  2. [2020YJ0485]

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This study used Mendelian randomization analysis to evaluate the causal effect of processed and red meat on the risk of common types of cancer. The results suggested that processed meat intake may increase the risk of lung cancer, but there was no strong evidence for an association with other cancers studied. Further research is needed to clarify the findings.
BackgroundObservational studies have suggested processed and red meat may increase the risk of cancer. However, the causal effects and direction between them were still unclear. We conducted two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to evaluate the causal effect of processed meat and red meat on the risk of nine common types of cancer, namely, lung, ovarian, endometrial, breast, kidney, gastric, prostate, skin, and oropharyngeal cancer. MethodsGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) for processed meat and red meat (pork, beef, and mutton) were obtained from the UK Biobank. GWAS of types of cancer in this study were extracted from the genetic consortia and the FinnGen consortium. The inverse variance weighted (IVW) was carried out as the main method for two-sample MR analysis. Sensitivity analyses were used to assess the robustness of the results. ResultsGenetically predicted processed meat intake was causally associated with increased risk of lung cancer (OR [odds ratio] = 1.923, 95% CI = 1.084-3.409, P = 0.025). There is no convincing evidence for the associations between genetically determined processed meat, red meat, and the risk of other cancers we studied. ConclusionOur results suggested that intake of processed meat may increase the risk of lung cancer. These findings provided no evidence to support that consumption of processed and red meat has a large effect on the risk of other cancers we studied. Further research is needed to clarify the results.

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