Consumption of industrial processed foods and risk of premenopausal breast cancer among Latin American women: the PRECAMA study

ABSTRACT: Ultra-processed food intake has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in Western populations. No data are available in the Latin American population although the consumption of ultra-processed foods is increasing rapidly in this region. We evaluated the association of ultra-pro...

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Autores:
Sánchez Vásquez, Gloria Inés
Maldonado Celis, María Elena
Romieu, Sabelle
Khandpur, Neha
Katsikari, Aikaterini
Biessy, Carine
Torres Mejía, Gabriela
Ángeles Llerenas, Angélica
Alvarado Cabrero, Isabel
Porras, Carolina
Rodríguez, Ana Cecilia
Garmendia, Maria Luisa
Chajés, Vèronique
Aglago, Elom K.
Porter, Peggy L.
Lin, MingGang
His, Mathilde
Gunter, Marc J.
Huybrechts, Inge
Rinaldi, Sabina
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/33135
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10495/33135
Palabra clave:
Evaluación Nutricional
Nutrition Assessment
Neoplasias de la Mama - prevención y control
Breast Neoplasms - prevention and control
Consumo de Alimentos
Food Consumption
Industria de Alimentos
Food Industry
América Latina
Latin America
Alimentos ultraprocesados
Ultra-processed food
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/co/
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Summary:ABSTRACT: Ultra-processed food intake has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in Western populations. No data are available in the Latin American population although the consumption of ultra-processed foods is increasing rapidly in this region. We evaluated the association of ultra-processed food intake to breast cancer risk in a case–control study including 525 cases (women aged 20–45 years) and 525 matched population-based controls from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. The degree of processing of foods was classified according to the NOVA classification. Overall, the major contributors to ultra-processed food intake were ready-to-eat/heat foods (18.2%), cakes and desserts (16.7%), carbonated and industrial fruit juice beverages (16.7%), breakfast cereals (12.9%), sausages and reconstituted meat products (12.1%), industrial bread (6.1%), dairy products and derivatives (7.6%) and package savoury snacks (6.1%). Ultra-processed food intake was positively associated with the risk of breast cancer in adjusted models (OR T3-T1=1.93; 95% CI=1.11 to 3.35). Specifically, a higher risk was observed with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer (ORT3-T1=2.44, (95% CI=1.01 to 5.90, P-trend=0.049), while no significant association was observed with oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer (ORT3-T1=1.87, 95% CI=0.43 to 8.13, P-trend=0.36). Our findings suggest that the consumption of ultraprocessed foods might increase the risk of breast cancer in young women in Latin America. Further studies should confirm these findings and disentangle specific mechanisms relating ultra-processed food intake and carcinogenic processes in the breast.