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Hence, we examined the association of low-carbohydrate diets with the risk of pancreatic cancer in a US population. A population-based cohort of 95 962 individuals was identified. A low-carbohydrate-diet score was calculated to quantify adherence to this dietary pattern, with higher scores indicating greater adherence. Cox regression was used to calculate risk estimate for the association of the low-carbohydrate-diet score with the risk of pancreatic cancer. Subgroup analysis was used to identify the potential effect modifiers. After an average follow-up of 8.87 years (875856.9 person-years), we documented a total of 351 pancreatic cancer cases. In the fully adjusted model, the highest versus the lowest quartiles of the overall low-carbohydrate-diet score were found to be associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer (hazard ratioquartile 4 versus 1: 0.61; 95% confidence interval: 0.45, 0.82; Ptrend &amp;lt; 0.001). Subgroup analysis found that the inverse association of low-carbohydrate diets with the risk of pancreatic cancer was more pronounced in individuals aged \u226565 years than in those aged &amp;lt;65 years (Pinteraction = 0.015). Similar results were obtained for animal and vegetable low-carbohydrate-diet scores. In conclusion, low-carbohydrate diets, regardless of the type of protein and fat, are associated with a lower risk of pancreatic cancer in the US population, suggesting that adherence to low-carbohydrate diets may be beneficial for pancreatic cancer prevention. Future studies should validate our findings in other populations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/carcin\/bgab006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,18]],"date-time":"2021-01-18T12:21:59Z","timestamp":1610972519000},"page":"724-732","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Low-carbohydrate diets and the risk of pancreatic cancer: a large prospective cohort study"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0280-7938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guo-Chao","family":"Zhong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qu-Jin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peng-Fei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nephrology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yun-Bing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fa-Bao","family":"Hao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Qingdao Women and Children\u2019s Hospital, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5401-1803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie-Jun","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing-Jing","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021052817272612900_CIT0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"394","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.21492","article-title":"Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries","volume":"68","author":"Bray","year":"2018","journal-title":"CA. 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