Publications by authors named "F Concina"
Prebiotics may influence the risk of hormone-related female cancers by modulating the gut microbiota involved in estrogen metabolism. We evaluated the association of fiber-type prebiotic intake with breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers. Data derived from a network of Italian hospital-based case-control studies (1991-2006), including 2560 cases of cancer of the breast (n = 2588 control participants), 454 of the endometrium (n = 908 control participants), and 1031 of the ovary (n = 2411 control participants).
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- The study investigates the potential link between specific types of dietary prebiotics (like inulin and galactooligosaccharides) and the risk of upper digestive tract cancers.
- Research was based on an analysis of data from Italian case-control studies conducted between 1992 and 2009, including nearly 1,500 cancer patients and over 4,000 controls.
- Results showed no significant association between prebiotic intake and the risk of cancers in the oral cavity, nasopharynx, and esophagus, indicating that consuming these fibers may not impact these particular types of cancer.
Purpose: To evaluate whether the intake of specific fibers with prebiotic activity, e.g., inulin-type fructans (ITFs), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOSs), and galacto-oligosaccharides (GOSs), is associated with laryngeal cancer risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch from different sources supports a link between nutrition and neurodevelopment, but evidence is still sparse regarding the relationship between dietary patterns (DPs) and cognitive performance in school-aged children. Within the Northern Adriatic Cohort II, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, 379 7-year-old children were cross-sectionally evaluated. Dietary patterns were identified through a principal component factor analysis based on 37 nutrients from children's 3-day dietary records.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the association between the intake of specific fibers with prebiotic activity, namely inulin-type fructans (ITFs), fructooligosaccharides (FOSs) and galactooligosaccharides (GOSs), and colorectal cancer risk.
Methods: Within the PrebiotiCa study, we used data from a multicentric case-control study conducted in Italy and including 1953 incident, histologically confirmed, colorectal cancer patients and 4154 hospital controls. The amount of six prebiotic molecules [ITFs, nystose (FOS), kestose (FOS), 1F-β-fructofuranosylnystose (FOS), raffinose (GOS) and stachyose (GOS)] in a variety of foods was quantified via laboratory analyses.