Estudios científicos
Wine drinking and epithelial ovarian cancer risk: a meta-analysis
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Wine has been the focus in the prevention of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) development because resveratrol abundant in wine has anti-carcinogenic properties. However, epidemiologic results have been heterogenous in the chemopreventive effect of wine on the development of EOC. Thus, we performed a meta-analysis for comparing EOC risk between wine and never drinkers using previous related studies. METHODS: After extensive search of the literature between January 1986 and December 2008, we analyzed 10 studies (3 cohort and 7 case control studies) with 135,871 women, who included 65,578 of wine and 70,293 of never drinkers. RESULTS: In all studies, there was no significant difference in EOC risk between wine and never drinkers (odds ratio [OR], 1.13; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.92 to 1.38; random effects). When we performed re-analysis according to the study design, 3 cohort and 7 case control studies showed that there were also no significant differences in EOC risk between wine and never drinkers, respectively (OR, 1.44 and 1.04; 95% CI, 0.74 and 2.82 and 0.88 to 1.22; random effects). In sub-analyses using 2 case-control studies, EOC risk was not different between former and never drinkers (OR, 1.12; 95% CI, 0.87 to 1.44; fixed effect), and between current and former drinkers (OR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.41 to 1.34; random effects). CONCLUSION: Although resveratrol, abundantly found in wine, is a promising naturally occurring compound with chemopreventive properties on EOC in preclinical studies, this meta-analysis suggests the epidemiologic evidence shows no association between wine drinking and EOC risk.
Comentarios divulgativos:
El vino ha mostrado ser efectivo en la prevención del desarrollo del cáncer de ovario (EOC) debido a sus propiedades anticarcinogénicas. Sin embargo los resultados epidemiológicos han resultado heterogéneos. En este estudio se diseña un meta-análisis para comparar el riesgo de EOC entre bebedores de vino y abstemios usando estudios previos. Aunque el resvaratrol es un promesa debido a sus propiedades chwemopreventivas este meta-análisis sugiere quwe no existe asociación entre el consumo de vino y el resgo de EOC.
