% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{MoralesBerstein:285526, author = {F. Morales-Berstein and C. Biessy and V. Viallon and A. Goncalves-Soares and C. Casagrande and B. Hémon and N. Kliemann and M. Cairat and J. Blanco Lopez and A. Al Nahas and K. Chang and E. Vamos and F. Rauber and R. Bertazzi Levy and D. Barbosa Cunha and P. Jakszyn and P. Ferrari and P. Vineis and G. Masala and A. Catalano and E. Sonestedt and Y. Borné and V. Katzke$^*$ and R. Bajracharya$^*$ and C. Agnoli and M. Guevara and A. Heath and L. Radoï and F. Mancini and E. Weiderpass and J. M. Huerta and M.-J. Sánchez and A. Tjønneland and C. Kyrø and M. B. Schulze and G. Skeie and M. Lukic and T. Braaten and M. Gunter and C. Millett and A. Agudo and P. Brennan and M. C. Borges and R. C. Richmond and T. G. Richardson and G. Davey Smith and C. L. Relton and I. Huybrechts}, collaboration = {E. Network}, title = {{U}ltra-processed foods, adiposity and risk of head and neck cancer and oesophageal adenocarcinoma in the {E}uropean {P}rospective {I}nvestigation into {C}ancer and {N}utrition study: a mediation analysis.}, journal = {European journal of nutrition}, volume = {63}, number = {2}, issn = {1436-6207}, address = {Heidelberg}, publisher = {Springer}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-02406}, pages = {377-396}, year = {2024}, note = {2024 Mar;63(2):377-396}, abstract = {To investigate the role of adiposity in the associations between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and head and neck cancer (HNC) and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort.Our study included 450,111 EPIC participants. We used Cox regressions to investigate the associations between the consumption of UPFs and HNC and OAC risk. A mediation analysis was performed to assess the role of body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) in these associations. In sensitivity analyses, we investigated accidental death as a negative control outcome.During a mean follow-up of 14.13 ± 3.98 years, 910 and 215 participants developed HNC and OAC, respectively. A $10\%$ g/d higher consumption of UPFs was associated with an increased risk of HNC (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.23, $95\%$ confidence interval [CI] 1.14-1.34) and OAC (HR = 1.24, $95\%$ CI 1.05-1.47). WHR mediated $5\%$ $(95\%$ CI $3-10\%)$ of the association between the consumption of UPFs and HNC risk, while BMI and WHR, respectively, mediated $13\%$ $(95\%$ CI $6-53\%)$ and $15\%$ $(95\%$ CI $8-72\%)$ of the association between the consumption of UPFs and OAC risk. UPF consumption was positively associated with accidental death in the negative control analysis.We reaffirmed that higher UPF consumption is associated with greater risk of HNC and OAC in EPIC. The proportion mediated via adiposity was small. Further research is required to investigate other mechanisms that may be at play (if there is indeed any causal effect of UPF consumption on these cancers).}, keywords = {Adiposity (Other) / Epidemiology (Other) / Food processing (Other) / Head and neck cancer (Other) / Mediation analysis (Other) / NOVA classification (Other) / Oesophageal cancer (Other)}, cin = {C020}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)C020-20160331}, pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:37989797}, doi = {10.1007/s00394-023-03270-1}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/285526}, }