In research published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, a diet high in antioxidants was linked with a lower risk of cervical cancer in women.<\/p>\n
In the study, investigators analyzed 2003\u20132018 data from 1,044 US women participating in the National Health and Examination Survey: 174 with and 870 without cervical cancer. With these data, the team looked for an association between cervical cancer and the Composite Dietary Antioxidant Index (CDAI)-a validated composite score that reflects an individual’s intake level of dietary antioxidants, based on dietary recall interviews.<\/p>\n
After adjusting for other factors that might affect cancer risk, the researchers found that each 1-unit increase in the CDAI was associated with a 11.4% lower prevalence of colorectal cancer. Participants in the highest CDAI tertile had a 55.8% lower prevalence of cervical cancer than those in the lowest tertile. Additional analyses indicated a linear inverse association between the CDAI and the prevalence of cervical cancer.<\/p>\n
“These findings suggest that dietary antioxidant intake may play a potential role in the prevention of cervical cancer. However, further prospective studies are needed to confirm this association and clarify the underlying mechanisms,” the authors wrote.<\/p>\n
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Journal reference:<\/p>\n
Lang, M., et al. (2026). Association between Composite Dietary Antioxidant Index and cervical cancer: A population\u2010based cross\u2010sectional study. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. DOI: 10.1002\/ijgo.71276.\u00a0https:\/\/obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ijgo.71276<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In research published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, a diet high in antioxidants was linked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[7815,110,29175,2368,18,9471,135,19,17,48837,172],"class_list":["post-645636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-antioxidant","tag-cancer","tag-cervical-cancer","tag-diet","tag-eire","tag-gynecology","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-obstetrics","tag-research"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117122897395864175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}