Tea Drinking and the Risk of Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder: A Meta-Analysis
Qier Xia1,2,3, Jun Li3, Yifan Shen3
1Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Soochow 215000, China.
Objective:
For evaluation of the correlation between tea drinking and the risk of carcinoma of the urinary bladder.
Methods:
By searching PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases, the original studies on tea drinking and carcinoma of the urinary bladder risk were collected, the data were extracted, and meta-analysis package 5.2-0 of R language was used for meta-analysis.
Results:
This study contained 11 researches, composed of 7686 patients and 10320 controls. Tea drinking was not linked to carcinoma of the urinary bladder risk (OR:1.02, 95%CI: 0.95-1.11).
Conclusion:
Tea drinking may not be linked to carcinoma of the urinary bladder, but more definitive results are needed from higher-quality trials.
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