Chili Pepper and Reduced Risk of Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer

• 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 Risk of Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The summary OR showed that high consumption of chili pepper was positively related to the risk of GI cancers (OR = 1.64; 95% CI: 1.00-2.70).

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes