title: Dietary and Alcohol Intake and Central Nervous System Tumors in Adults: Results of the CERENAT Multicenter Case-Control Study.
abstract: Little is known about the relationship between diet and central nervous system (CNS) tumors, especially in terms of their histological subtypes. This study investigated the overall associations between food groups, alcohol intake and CNS tumors, and in particular about the associations between neuroepithelial tumors and meningiomas.
  
  
  
  Data were collected through the CERENAT (CEREbral tumors: a NATional study) case-control study conducted in France during the period 2004-2010. Data were available for 1,479 subjects (494 cases, including 201 neuroepithelial tumors, 193 meningiomas, 100 other CNS tumors, and their 985 matched controls). Conditional logistic regressions for matched sets were adjusted based on the participants' educational level, occupation, smoking status and frequency of food group consumption.
  
  
  
  A heavy consumption of grilled meat and poultry was associated with neuroepithelial tumors in a dose-related relationship (ORQ4vsQ1 = 3.72, 95% CI 1.62-8.52, p = 0.005). Higher fruit and vegetable intake was inversely associated with meningiomas (for fruits: ORQ4vsQ1 = 0.38, 95% CI 0.17-0.87, p = 0.06, for vegetables ORQ4vsQ1 = 0.26, 95% CI 0.11-0.62, p = 0.007). Consumption of alcohol on a daily basis was inversely associated with CNS tumors especially for meningiomas (ORQ4vsQ1 = 0.33, 95% CI 0.18-0.61, p = 0.001).
  
  
  
  Results obtained in terms of grilled meat, fruits and vegetables consumption were in line with those published in epidemiological literature. Contradictions in results between neuroepithelial tumors and meningiomas confirmed the need to analyze the effects of dietary factors on the basis of the histological subtypes of CNS tumors.
authors.affiliation: Université de Bordeaux, ISPED, Bordeaux Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allès
authors.forename: Camille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pouchieu
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lebailly
authors.forename: Hugues
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Loiseau
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fabbro-Peray
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Letenneur
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Baldi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016543:Central Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008579:Meningioma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018302:Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014675:Vegetables