Chili Pepper and Reduced Esophageal Cancer Risk

• Association between chili pepper consumption and risk of gastrointestinal-tract cancers: A meta-analysis.

  • 2022-11-03
  • Systematic Review · n = 310
  • Frontiers in nutrition 9
  • • Changchang Chen
    • Man Zhang
    • Xutong Zheng
    • Hongjuan Lang

  • PubMed: 36407551
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.935865

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Esophageal Cancer Risk

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  A stronger positive relationship was observed between chili pepper consumption and EC risk (OR = 2.71; 95% CI: 1.54-4.75)

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes