Nut consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer in women (original) (raw)

“…Then, we performed a dose-response analysis with the method proposed by Greenland and Longnecker [12] to compute linear trends and 95% CIs from the natural logs of the RRs and CIs across categories of each source of protein intake. When the included studies used different units (such as servings and times), we converted them into grams per day according to standard conversions from the Food Standards Agency [13] and other documents [14,15,16] (for fresh red meat, poultry, and fish, one serving was equivalent to 120 g; for egg and processed meat, one serving was equal to 50 g; for dairy products, the weight of one serving was 200 g; for nuts, it was 28 g). For soy foods and nuts, we used serving/day as units, because most studies used servings as units.…”