RT Journal Article
T1 Consumption of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners and risk of cancer in the Spanish multicase-control study (MCC-Spain)
A1 Palomar Cros, Anna
A1 Contreras Llanes, Manuel
A1 Santos Sánchez, Vanessa
A1 Lassale, Camille
AB Use of artificial sweeteners (AS) such as aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin and sucralose is widespread. We evaluated the association of use of aspartame and other AS with cancer. In total 1881 colorectal, 1510 breast, 972 prostate and 351 stomach cancer and 109 chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cases and 3629 population controls from the Spanish Multicase-Control (MCC-Spain) study were recruited (2008-2013). The consumption of AS, from table-top sweeteners and artificially sweetened beverages, was assessed through a self-administered and validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Sex-specific quartiles among controls were determined to compare moderate consumers (<third quartile) and high consumers (≥ third quartile) vs non consumers (reference category), distinguishing aspartame-containing products and other AS. Unconditional logistic regression models were used to estimate adjusted OR and 95%CI, and results were stratified by diabetes status. Overall, we found no associations between the consumption of aspartame or other AS and cancer. Among participants with diabetes, high consumption of other AS was associated with colorectal cancer (OR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.05-2.41, P trend = .03) and stomach cancer (OR = 2.27 [0.99-5.44], P trend = .06). High consumption of aspartame, was associated with stomach cancer (OR = 2.04 [0.7-5.4], P trend = .05), while a lower risk was observed for breast cancer (OR = 0.28 [0.08-0.83], P trend = .03). In some cancers, the number of cases in participants with diabetes were small and results should be interpreted cautiously. We did not find associations between use of AS and cancer, but found associations between high consumption of aspartame and other AS and different cancer types among participants with diabetes.
PB Wiley
SN 0020-7136
SN 1097-0215 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23418
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23418
LA eng
NO Palomar‐Cros, A., Straif, K., Romaguera, D., Aragonés, N., Castaño‐Vinyals, G., Martin, V., Moreno, V., Gómez‐Acebo, I., Guevara, M., Aizpurua, A., Molina‐Barceló, A., Jiménez‐Moleón, J., Tardón, A., Contreras‐Llanes, M., Marcos‐Gragera, R., Huerta, J. M., Pérez‐Gómez, B., Espinosa, A., Hernández‐Segura, N., … Lassale, C. (2023). Consumption of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners and risk of cancer in the Spanish multicase‐control study (MCC‐Spain). In International Journal of Cancer (Vol. 153, Issue 5, pp. 979–993). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34577
NO The study was partially funded by the “Accion Transversal del Cancer”, approved on the Spanish Ministry Council on the 11th October 2007, by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FEDER (PI08/1770, PI08/0533, PI08/1359, PS09/00773-Cantabria, PS09/01286-León, PS09/01903-Valencia, PS09/02078-Huelva, PS09/01662-Granada, PI11/01403, PI11/01889-FEDER, PI11/00226, PI11/01810, PI11/02213, PI12/00488, PI12/00265, PI12/01270, PI12/00715, PI12/00150, PI14/01219, PI14/0613, PI15/00069, PI15/00914, PI15/01032, PI17CIII/00034), by the Fundación Marqués de Valdecilla (API 10/09), by the ICGC International Cancer Genome Consortium CLL (The ICGC CLL-Genome Project is funded by SpanishMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad [MINECO] through the Instituto de Salud Carlos III [ISCIII] and Red Temática de Investigación del Cáncer [RTICC] del ISCIII [RD12/0036/0036]), by the Junta de Castilla y León (LE22A10-2), by the Consejería de Salud of the Junta de Andalucía (PI-0571-2009, PI-0306-2011, salud201200057018tra), by the Conselleria de Sanitat of the Generalitat Valenciana (AP_061/10), by the Recercaixa (2010ACUP 00310), by the RegionalGovernment of the Basque Country, by the Consejería de Sanidad de la Región de Murcia, by the European Commission grants FOOD-CT-2006-036224-HIWATE, by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) Scientific Foundation, by the Catalan Government-Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) grants 2017SGR723, 2014SGR850, 2017SGR1085, 2021SGR01354 by the Fundaci on Caja de Ahorros de Asturias and by the University ofOviedo. ISGlobal acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019-2023” Program (CEX2018-000806-S), and support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. Anna Palomar-Cros is supported by a MINECO (Spanish Ministry of Economy)fellowship (PRE2019-089038). Camille Lassale is supported by a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship RYC2020-029599 funded by MCIN (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) and EI FSE “Invest in your future".
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