Drinking more than two alcohol glasses per day eliminates the benefit that folate intake in stomach cancer patientsaccording to a study whose first signatory is the postdoctoral researcher of the Nutrition Epidemiology Unit (EPINUT) from Miguel Hernández de Elche University (Umh) Sandra González Palacios.
In depth
Dietary folate is a vitamin whose main contributors are fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts. In an article previously published by the UMH researcher, it was already demonstrated a lower risk of stomach cancer among people who had a greater dietary folate intake.
This new advance has been detected after controlling the effect of other possible risk factors known to stomach cancer, such as Helicobacter Pilori, tobacco and low socioeconomic levelamong others, as explained by the academic institution.
More details
In the study, the joint analysis (Poole-Analysis) has been carried out for A total of 2,829 cases of gastric cancer and 8,141 controls to participants in eleven studies from different countriesbelonging to the Stomach Cancer Pooling International Consortium.
This work has been published in open access in the magazine International Journal of Cancerone of the magazines with the greatest impact factor in the Oncology area of JCR and has had the institutional support of the UMH, the Institute for Health and Biomedical Research of Alicante and the Network Biomedical Research Center.
To take into account
The Nutrition Epidemiology Unit (EPINUT) of the UMH is directed by the professor of the area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health Jesus saw.
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