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Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet score and risk of incident cancer; a prospective cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrition Journal, May 2013
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Title
Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet score and risk of incident cancer; a prospective cohort study
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Nutrition Journal, May 2013
DOI 10.1186/1475-2891-12-58
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Lena Maria Nilsson, Anna Winkvist, Ingegerd Johansson, Bernt Lindahl, Göran Hallmans, Per Lenner, Bethany Van Guelpen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although carbohydrate reduction of varying degrees is a popular and controversial dietary trend, potential long-term effects for health, and cancer in specific, are largely unknown. METHODS: We studied a previously established low-carbohydrate, high-protein (LCHP) score in relation to the incidence of cancer and specific cancer types in a population-based cohort in northern Sweden. Participants were 62,582 men and women with up to 17.8 years of follow-up (median 9.7), including 3,059 prospective cancer cases. Cox regression analyses were performed for a LCHP score based on the sum of energy-adjusted deciles of carbohydrate (descending) and protein (ascending) intake labeled 1 to 10, with higher scores representing a diet lower in carbohydrates and higher in protein. Important potential confounders were accounted for, and the role of metabolic risk profile, macronutrient quality including saturated fat intake, and adequacy of energy intake reporting was explored. RESULTS: For the lowest to highest LCHP scores, 2 to 20, carbohydrate intakes ranged from median 60.9 to 38.9% of total energy intake. Both protein (primarily animal sources) and particularly fat (both saturated and unsaturated) intakes increased with increasing LCHP scores. LCHP score was not related to cancer risk, except for a non-dose-dependent, positive association for respiratory tract cancer that was statistically significant in men. The multivariate hazard ratio for medium (9--13) versus low (2--8) LCHP scores was 1.84 (95% confidence interval: 1.05-3.23; p-trend = 0.38). Other analyses were largely consistent with the main results, although LCHP score was associated with colorectal cancer risk inversely in women with high saturated fat intakes, and positively in men with higher LCHP scores based on vegetable protein. CONCLUSION: These largely null results provide important information concerning the long-term safety of moderate carbohydrate reduction and consequent increases in protein and, in this cohort, especially fat intakes. In order to determine the effects of stricter carbohydrate restriction, further studies encompassing a wider range of macronutrient intakes are warranted.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 99 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 23%
Student > Master 17 17%
Researcher 13 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Student > Postgraduate 8 8%
Other 21 21%
Unknown 12 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 17%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 16 16%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2017.
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#1,448,850
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Outputs from Nutrition Journal
#383
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Outputs of similar age
#11,472
of 197,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nutrition Journal
#15
of 52 outputs
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