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Dietary Patterns and Cancer Risk: An Overview with Focus on Methods
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2024), pp. 30–53
Pub. online: 29 May 2023      Type: Methodology Article      Open accessOpen Access
Area: Cancer Research

1 Branch of Medical Statistics, Biometry, and Epidemiology “G. A. Maccacaro”, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano.
2 Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico.
3 Department of Biostatistics, Brown University.
4 Data Science Initiative, Brown University.
5 Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University.
6 Department of Medicine - DAME, Università degli Studi di Udine.
Accepted
28 April 2023
Published
29 May 2023

Notes

to Adriano Decarli, Honorary Professor of Medical Statistics, Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract

Traditionally, research in nutritional epidemiology has focused on specific foods/food groups or single nutrients in their relation with disease outcomes, including cancer. Dietary pattern analysis have been introduced to examine potential cumulative and interactive effects of individual dietary components of the overall diet, in which foods are consumed in combination. Dietary patterns can be identified by using evidence-based investigator-defined approaches or by using data-driven approaches, which rely on either response independent (also named “a posteriori” dietary patterns) or response dependent (also named “mixed-type” dietary patterns) multivariate statistical methods. Within the open methodological challenges related to study design, dietary assessment, identification of dietary patterns, confounding phenomena, and cancer risk assessment, the current paper provides an updated landscape review of novel methodological developments in the statistical analysis of a posteriori/mixed-type dietary patterns and cancer risk. The review starts from standard a posteriori dietary patterns from principal component, factor, and cluster analyses, including mixture models, and examines mixed-type dietary patterns from reduced rank regression, partial least squares, classification and regression tree analysis, and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator. Novel statistical approaches reviewed include Bayesian factor analysis with modeling of sparsity through shrinkage and sparse priors and frequentist focused principal component analysis. Most novelties relate to the reproducibility of dietary patterns across studies where potentialities of the Bayesian approach to factor and cluster analysis work at best.

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Dietary patterns Cluster analysis Factor analysis Reduced rank regression Multi-study factor analysis Robust profile clustering

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This research is supported by the U.S.A.’s National Institutes of Health, grant NIGMS/NIH COBRE CBHD P20GM109035 (RDV).

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