Open AccessInvestigating the associations of glycemic load and glycemic index with lung cancer risk in the Southern Community Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Xiang Shu,
Danxia Yu,
XiaoOu Shu,
Heather M. Munro,
Zheng Wang,
William J. Blot
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ccc. cancer causes and control/ccc, cancer causes and control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.073
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-7225
pISSN - 0957-5243
DOI - 10.1007/s10552-020-01344-7
Subject(s) - medicine , glycemic load , glycemic index , lung cancer , prospective cohort study , cohort , hazard ratio , population , proportional hazards model , cohort study , epidemiology , cancer , demography , environmental health , glycemic , confidence interval , sociology , insulin
Diets with a high glycemic load (GL) or glycemic index (GI) may increase cancer risk. Findings from prior studies on the relationship between GL, GI, and lung cancer risk are inconsistent. We investigated this relationship in a large prospective cohort.