International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the bladder cancer, epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) study: design and baseline characteristics
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Auteurs : Maria E. Goossens ; Fatima Isa ; Maree Brinkman ; David Mak ; Raoul Reulen ; Anke Wesselius ; Simone Benhamou ; Cristina Bosetti ; Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita ; Angela Carta ; Md Farouk Allam ; Klaus Golka ; Eric J. Grant ; Xuejuan Jiang ; Kenneth C. Johnson ; Margaret R. Karagas ; Eliane Kellen ; Carlo La Vecchia ; Chih-Ming Lu ; James Marshall ; Kirsten Moysich ; Hermann Pohlabeln ; Stefano Porru ; Gunnar Steineck ; Marianne C. Stern ; Li Tang ; Jack A. Taylor ; Piet Van Den Brandt ; Paul J. Villeneuve ; Kenji Wakai ; Elisabete Weiderpass ; Emily White ; Alicja Wolk ; Zuo-Feng Zhang ; Frank Buntinx ; Maurice P. ZeegersSource :
- Archives of Public Health [ 0778-7367 ] ; 2016.
Abstract
In 2012, more than 400,000 urinary bladder cancer cases occurred worldwide, making it the 7th most common type of cancer. Although many previous studies focused on the relationship between diet and bladder cancer, the evidence related to specific food items or nutrients that could be involved in the development of bladder cancer remains inconclusive. Dietary components can either be, or be activated into, potential carcinogens through metabolism, or act to prevent carcinogen damage.
The BLadder cancer, Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants (BLEND) study was set up with the purpose of collecting individual patient data from observational studies on diet and bladder cancer. In total, data from 11,261 bladder cancer cases and 675,532 non-cases from 18 case–control and 6 cohort studies from all over the world were included with the aim to investigate the association between individual food items, nutrients and dietary patterns and risk of developing bladder cancer.
The substantial number of cases included in this study will enable us to provide evidence with large statistical power, for dietary recommendations on the prevention of bladder cancer.
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DOI: 10.1186/s13690-016-0140-1
PubMed: 27386115
PubMed Central: 4933992
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Stern</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff15">Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Tang, Li" sort="Tang, Li" uniqKey="Tang L" first="Li" last="Tang">Li Tang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff21">Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Taylor, Jack A" sort="Taylor, Jack A" uniqKey="Taylor J" first="Jack A." last="Taylor">Jack A. Taylor</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff24">Epidemiology Branch, and Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Van Den Brandt, Piet" sort="Van Den Brandt, Piet" uniqKey="Van Den Brandt P" first="Piet" last="Van Den Brandt">Piet Van Den Brandt</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff25">Department of Epidemiology, Schools for Oncology and Developmental Biology and Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Villeneuve, Paul J" sort="Villeneuve, Paul J" uniqKey="Villeneuve P" first="Paul J." last="Villeneuve">Paul J. Villeneuve</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff26">Population Studies Division Health Canada, Ottawa, ON Canada</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Wakai, Kenji" sort="Wakai, Kenji" uniqKey="Wakai K" first="Kenji" last="Wakai">Kenji Wakai</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff27">Department of Preventive medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Weiderpass, Elisabete" sort="Weiderpass, Elisabete" uniqKey="Weiderpass E" first="Elisabete" last="Weiderpass">Elisabete Weiderpass</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff28">Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff29">Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff30">Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff31">Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="White, Emily" sort="White, Emily" uniqKey="White E" first="Emily" last="White">Emily White</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff32">Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Wolk, Alicja" sort="Wolk, Alicja" uniqKey="Wolk A" first="Alicja" last="Wolk">Alicja Wolk</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff33">Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zhang, Zuo Feng" sort="Zhang, Zuo Feng" uniqKey="Zhang Z" first="Zuo-Feng" last="Zhang">Zuo-Feng Zhang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff34">Departments of Epidemiology, UCLA Center for Environmental Genomics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA USA</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Buntinx, Frank" sort="Buntinx, Frank" uniqKey="Buntinx F" first="Frank" last="Buntinx">Frank Buntinx</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff1">Department of General Practice, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ACHG-KU Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 33, Blok J, bus 7001, 3000 Leuven, Belgium</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff35">CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zeegers, Maurice P" sort="Zeegers, Maurice P" uniqKey="Zeegers M" first="Maurice P." last="Zeegers">Maurice P. Zeegers</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff4">NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff35">CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff36">School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Archives of Public Health</title><idno type="ISSN">0778-7367</idno><idno type="eISSN">2049-3258</idno><imprint><date when="2016">2016</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Background</title><p>In 2012, more than 400,000 urinary bladder cancer cases occurred worldwide, making it the 7<sup>th</sup> most common type of cancer. Although many previous studies focused on the relationship between diet and bladder cancer, the evidence related to specific food items or nutrients that could be involved in the development of bladder cancer remains inconclusive. Dietary components can either be, or be activated into, potential carcinogens through metabolism, or act to prevent carcinogen damage.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods/design</title><p>The BLadder cancer, Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants (BLEND) study was set up with the purpose of collecting individual patient data from observational studies on diet and bladder cancer. 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rid="Aff1"></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff35"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zeegers</surname><given-names>Maurice P.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff4"></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff35"></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff36"></xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label></label>Department of General Practice, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ACHG-KU Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 33, Blok J, bus 7001, 3000 Leuven, Belgium</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label></label>Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK</aff><aff id="Aff3"><label></label>The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia</aff><aff id="Aff4"><label></label>NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands</aff><aff id="Aff5"><label></label>INSERM U946, Variabilite Genetique et Maladies Humaines, Fondation Jean Dausset / CEPH, Paris, France</aff><aff id="Aff6"><label></label>Laboratory of General Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy</aff><aff id="Aff7"><label></label>Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands</aff><aff id="Aff8"><label></label>Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands</aff><aff id="Aff9"><label></label>Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK</aff><aff id="Aff10"><label></label>Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</aff><aff id="Aff11"><label></label>Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, Section of Public Health and Human Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy</aff><aff id="Aff12"><label></label>Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain</aff><aff id="Aff13"><label></label>Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany</aff><aff id="Aff14"><label></label>Department of Epidemiology Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan</aff><aff id="Aff15"><label></label>Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA</aff><aff id="Aff16"><label></label>Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada</aff><aff id="Aff17"><label></label>Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA</aff><aff id="Aff18"><label></label>Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), Leuven, Belgium</aff><aff id="Aff19"><label></label>Department of Clinical Medicine and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy</aff><aff id="Aff20"><label></label>Department of Urology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Dalin Township, 62247 Chiayi County Taiwan</aff><aff id="Aff21"><label></label>Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY USA</aff><aff id="Aff22"><label></label>Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany</aff><aff id="Aff23"><label></label>Department of Oncology and Pathology, Division of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden</aff><aff id="Aff24"><label></label>Epidemiology Branch, and Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC USA</aff><aff id="Aff25"><label></label>Department of Epidemiology, Schools for Oncology and Developmental Biology and Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands</aff><aff id="Aff26"><label></label>Population Studies Division Health Canada, Ottawa, ON Canada</aff><aff id="Aff27"><label></label>Department of Preventive medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan</aff><aff id="Aff28"><label></label>Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden</aff><aff id="Aff29"><label></label>Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway</aff><aff id="Aff30"><label></label>Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland</aff><aff id="Aff31"><label></label>Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway</aff><aff id="Aff32"><label></label>Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA USA</aff><aff id="Aff33"><label></label>Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden</aff><aff id="Aff34"><label></label>Departments of Epidemiology, UCLA Center for Environmental Genomics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA USA</aff><aff id="Aff35"><label></label>CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands</aff><aff id="Aff36"><label></label>School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>6</day><month>7</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>6</day><month>7</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>74</volume><elocation-id>30</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>10</day><month>3</month><year>2016</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>18</day><month>5</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© The Author(s). 2016</copyright-statement><license license-type="OpenAccess"><license-p><bold>Open Access</bold>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</ext-link>) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="Abs1"><sec><title>Background</title><p>In 2012, more than 400,000 urinary bladder cancer cases occurred worldwide, making it the 7<sup>th</sup> most common type of cancer. Although many previous studies focused on the relationship between diet and bladder cancer, the evidence related to specific food items or nutrients that could be involved in the development of bladder cancer remains inconclusive. Dietary components can either be, or be activated into, potential carcinogens through metabolism, or act to prevent carcinogen damage.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods/design</title><p>The BLadder cancer, Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants (BLEND) study was set up with the purpose of collecting individual patient data from observational studies on diet and bladder cancer. In total, data from 11,261 bladder cancer cases and 675,532 non-cases from 18 case–control and 6 cohort studies from all over the world were included with the aim to investigate the association between individual food items, nutrients and dietary patterns and risk of developing bladder cancer.</p></sec><sec><title>Discussion</title><p>The substantial number of cases included in this study will enable us to provide evidence with large statistical power, for dietary recommendations on the prevention of bladder cancer.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Bladder cancer</kwd><kwd>Diet</kwd><kwd>Risk</kwd><kwd>Pooled analysis</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution>World Cancer Research Fund (NL)</institution></funding-source><award-id>2012/590</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Zeegers</surname><given-names>Maurice P.</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group></funding-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© The Author(s) 2016</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1"><title>Background</title><p>In 2012, more than 400,000 urinary bladder cancer (UBC) cases occurred worldwide, making it the 7th most common type of cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>]. Due to lifetime ongoing cystoscopies and recurrent treatment episodes, UBC is the most expensive malignancy in terms of healthcare expenditure in the USA and in most Western countries [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref>]. The effect of diet in the prevention of UBC could be more pronounced compared to other types of cancer as dietary components are often excreted through the urine. Dietary components can either be, or be activated into, potential carcinogens through metabolism, or act to prevent carcinogen damage [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">4</xref>].</p><p>Although many previous studies focused on the relationship between diet and UBC, the evidence related to specific food items or nutrients that could be involved in the development of UBC remains inconclusive. The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) concluded in their most recent WCRF/AICR expert report [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR5">5</xref>] that there is some evidence for an decreased risk of bladder cancer with greater consumption of vegetables, fruit and tea and strong evidence that drinking water containing arsenic increases the risk of bladder cancer. A potential reason for the absence of evidence between specific foods and nutrients and the risk of UBC is that associations between cancer risk and dietary intake are usually weak and most previous studies may have had insufficient sample size and thus missed adequate statistical power for detailed analyses on individual food items, for subgroup analyses and for food-food interactions. Pooling of individual data of existing epidemiological studies on diet and UBC might therefore be an effective way to increase the current knowledge on the influences of foods, nutrients and dietary patterns on UBC risk. The influence of occupational risk and pollutants in the water, such as arsenic, are not part of this investigation. Occupational risk factors were identified as risk factors for bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref>]. However, as the frequency of having a high-risk occupation is very low (<3 %) this could not importantly confound the results. For this reason, the BLEND study as well as most previous bladder cancer epidemiological studies have not corrected for occupation in their analyses.</p><p>Within the BLadder cancer, Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants (BLEND) study, we aim to investigate comprehensively the association between individual food items, nutrients, and dietary patterns and risk of developing UBC. The results of this study will likely aid in developing and reviewing current dietary recommendations for the prevention of UBC. In this paper we report on the methodology and baseline characteristics of the BLEND study.</p></sec><sec id="Sec2"><title>Methods/design</title><sec id="Sec3"><title>Included epidemiological studies</title><p>Possible eligible epidemiological studies reporting on diet and UBC have been identified by a computerized search of Medline (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) (1966-Sept 2009), and Embase (Elsevier B. V., Amderstam, the Netherlands (1974-Sept 2009) using the medical subject headings (MeSH; National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) “urinary bladder neoplasms” and “risk” and the free-text word “risk”. The search was restricted to the MeSH term “humans”. All articles from peer-reviewed journals, reporting on the association between diet and risk of UBC were selected. Within these articles, we identified the eligible studies that used a case–control or a cohort design, had data on diet and a minimum number of cases of 40 patients. The principal investigators of these eligible studies were contacted and invited to participate in our collaborative project. There was no restriction about the amount of available diet items, however, data on confounders, especially, smoking, had to be available.</p></sec><sec id="Sec4"><title>Data harmonization</title><p>To harmonize our data, a common codebook was created based on the Eurocode 2 Core classification version 99/2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">7</xref>]. The Eurocode 2 Food Coding System was originally developed to serve as a standard instrument for nutritional surveys in Europe and to serve the need for food intake comparisons within the European FLAIR Eurofoods-Enfant Project [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref>]. The Eurocode 2 classification System unambiguously defines which types of food are covered or not within each food category so that the potential for misclassification is limited. The System provides coding for food items consumed all over the world. Coding has been done centrally by the researchers of the Blend team. One part of the team did the coding, while the other part of the team checked for possible errors. Translation of the questionnaires in English was provided by the principle investigator for studies in other languages. Apart from the variables on diet, we collected non-dietary data such as, study design, age, gender, ethnic group, TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors (TNM), smoking status, smoking frequency and duration, and family history. Each participant was assigned a random and unique identification number. Analyses were restricted to adults, i.e. participants younger than 18 years were excluded. Categorical data have been checked by producing frequency tables to identify inaccurate coding while continuous data have been checked performing descriptive statistics. Possible coding errors and missing data within the provided data of each study were discussed with the principal investigator and updated accordingly. Outliers, defined as values outside the general distribution of the data, were identified after visual inspection of the resultant scatterplots and omitted [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">9</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec5"><title>Baseline characteristics</title><p>In total 67 potentially eligible studies from 156 retrieved articles were identified (Fig. <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>). Thirty-eight investigators agreed to participate and 24 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>] provided data (Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>). Reasons for non-participation after initially agreement were: no data on diet or the minimum set of confounders available, the workload that was already too high and the wish to publish the results on nutrition first before participating in a pooled study. With some investigators, we lost communication after initial contact. The first datasets and codebooks were collected in March 2009 while the last dataset was included in March 2016. Another two new studies, one case–control and one cohort study are available for inclusion.<fig id="Fig1"><label>Fig. 1</label><caption><p>Flow diagram of the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="13690_2016_140_Fig1_HTML" id="MO1"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="Tab1"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Characteristics of the studies included in the pooled analysis of the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Study</th><th>Country</th><th>Recruitment<break></break>period</th><th>Study design</th><th colspan="3">Cases<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th colspan="3">Controls<break></break><italic>N</italic></th></tr><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>men</th><th>women</th><th>total</th><th>men</th><th>women</th><th>total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="10">Case–control studies</td></tr><tr><td> Los-Angeles bladder cancer Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1987–1999</td><td>Population based case–control</td><td>1,307</td><td>353</td><td>1,660</td><td>1,237</td><td>349</td><td>1,586</td></tr><tr><td> Roswell Park Cancer Institute [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1982–1998</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>164</td><td>53</td><td>217</td><td>501</td><td>163</td><td>664</td></tr><tr><td> Belgian Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>]</td><td>Belgium</td><td>1999–2004</td><td>Population based case–control</td><td>172</td><td>28</td><td>200</td><td>228</td><td>156</td><td>384</td></tr><tr><td> Aichi Prefecture Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>]</td><td>Japan</td><td>1996–1999</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>245</td><td>58</td><td>303</td><td>244</td><td>59</td><td>303</td></tr><tr><td> Kaohsiung [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>]</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>1996–1997</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>31</td><td>9</td><td>40</td><td>124</td><td>36</td><td>160</td></tr><tr><td> Hessen Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>]</td><td>Germany</td><td>1989–1992</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>239</td><td>61</td><td>300</td><td>239</td><td>61</td><td>300</td></tr><tr><td> Stockholm Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>]</td><td>Sweden</td><td>1985–1987</td><td>Population based case–control</td><td>204</td><td>67</td><td>271</td><td>281</td><td>268</td><td>549</td></tr><tr><td> Roswell Park Memorial Institute Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1957–1965</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>415</td><td>138</td><td>553</td><td>3,253</td><td>4,636</td><td>7,889</td></tr><tr><td> Reina Sofia University Hospital [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>]</td><td>Spain</td><td>1997</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>74</td><td>11</td><td>85</td><td>89</td><td>41</td><td>130</td></tr><tr><td> New Hampshire bladder cancer study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1994–2001</td><td>Population based case–control</td><td>286</td><td>104</td><td>390</td><td>185</td><td>138</td><td>323</td></tr><tr><td> Italian Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]</td><td>Italy</td><td>1985–1993</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>617</td><td>110</td><td>727</td><td>766</td><td>298</td><td>1,064</td></tr><tr><td> Brescia bladder cancer study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>]</td><td>Italy</td><td>1997–2000</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>200</td><td>0</td><td>200</td><td>214</td><td>0</td><td>214</td></tr><tr><td> Dortmund Hörde study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>]</td><td>Germany</td><td>2009–2010</td><td>Hospital based case–control</td><td>145</td><td>48</td><td>193</td><td>177</td><td>56</td><td>233</td></tr><tr><td> National Enhanced Cancer Surveillance System (NESCC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>]</td><td>Canada</td><td>1994–1997</td><td>Population based case–control</td><td>600</td><td>311</td><td>911</td><td>2,451</td><td>2,423</td><td>4,874</td></tr><tr><td> French INSERM study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]</td><td>France</td><td>1984–1987</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>166</td><td>33</td><td>199</td><td>275</td><td>47</td><td>322</td></tr><tr><td> South and East China Case–control study on bladder and prostate cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>]</td><td>China</td><td>2005–2008</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>390</td><td>93</td><td>483</td><td>364</td><td>100</td><td>464</td></tr><tr><td> Molecular Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer and Prostate Cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1993–1997</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>149</td><td>45</td><td>194</td><td>243</td><td>58</td><td>301</td></tr><tr><td> North Carolina case control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>1987–1991</td><td>Hospital-based case–control</td><td>188</td><td>56</td><td>244</td><td>174</td><td>41</td><td>215</td></tr><tr><td colspan="10">Cohort studies</td></tr><tr><td> Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) & the Cohort of Swedish Men [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>]</td><td>Sweden</td><td>1987–1990</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>538</td><td>119</td><td>657</td><td>2,188</td><td>484</td><td>2,672</td></tr><tr><td> Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR29">29</xref>]</td><td>The Netherlands</td><td>1986–2003</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>779</td><td>161</td><td>940</td><td>2,273</td><td>2,419</td><td>4,692</td></tr><tr><td> Women's Lifestyle and Health Study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>]</td><td>Norway, Sweden</td><td>1991–2006</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>0</td><td>49</td><td>49</td><td>0</td><td>48,942</td><td>48,942</td></tr><tr><td> RERF atomic bomb survivors Study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>]</td><td>Japan</td><td>1950–2000</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>216</td><td>85</td><td>301</td><td>19,362</td><td>28,249</td><td>47,611</td></tr><tr><td> VITamins and Lifestyle Study (VITAL) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>]</td><td>USA</td><td>2000–2008</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>338</td><td>106</td><td>444</td><td>36,454</td><td>39,983</td><td>76,437</td></tr><tr><td> European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>Europe</td><td>1993–2006</td><td>Population based cohort</td><td>1,227</td><td>525</td><td>1,752</td><td>141,872</td><td>333,279</td><td>475,151</td></tr><tr><td>TOTAL</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>8,657</td><td>2,604</td><td>11,313</td><td>213,227</td><td>462,305</td><td>675,480</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p><p>More than 2/3 of the case–control studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>] had a hospital-based case–control design. Ten studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>] were also part of the International Bladder Cancer Consortium that was formed in 2005 as an open scientific forum for genetic-epidemiologic researchers in the field of UBC. Most of the studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>] were from Europe, eight studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>] were from the USA and Canada, and four [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>] studies were from Asia.</p><p>After excluding participants with unknown age (<italic>n</italic> = 5), unknown case–control status (<italic>n</italic> = 214) and unknown smoking status (<italic>n</italic> = 14,028) data of 686,793 participants were available for analyses of which 11,261 cases and 675,532 non-cases. The Brescia bladder cancer study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>] contained only male participants, while the Women’s Lifestyle and Health study consisted of only female participants. Most of the cases were from America to Europe while only 10 % were from Asia.</p><p>The cases of the European and Asian case–control studies had the highest male/female ratio (4:1) while their overall male/female ratio was 3:1 (Table <xref rid="Tab2" ref-type="table">2</xref>). In general, controls were younger than cases, 57.0 versus 61.6 years and 51.8 versus 61.1 years, respectively for case–control studies and cohort studies with an exception for the Asian case–control studies (66.1 versus 64.9 years). Most of the participants were Caucasian, whereas only 10 % of the cases were Asian. In contrast with Asia, where one third of the cases were never smoker, only one fifth of the cases never smoked in Europe and USA. Overall, 40 % of the cases were smokers. Controls had significant less current and more never smokers than cases. For cohort studies, nearly half of the controls never smoked. Staging was not reported in 60 and 70 % respectively for the case–control and cohort studies.<table-wrap id="Tab2"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Characteristics of the study population of the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Total</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Europe</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>America</th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Asia</th><th></th></tr><tr><th></th><th colspan="2">Cases</th><th colspan="2">Controls</th><th colspan="2">Cases</th><th colspan="2">Controls</th><th colspan="2">Cases</th><th colspan="2">Controls</th><th colspan="2">Cases</th><th colspan="2">Controls</th></tr><tr><th></th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(()</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th><th><italic>N</italic></th><th>(%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Case–control studies</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Gender</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Male</td><td>5,592</td><td>(77.9)</td><td>11,045</td><td>(55.9)</td><td>1,817</td><td>(83.5)</td><td>2,269</td><td>(71.0)</td><td>3,109</td><td>(74.6)</td><td>8,044</td><td>(50.7)</td><td>666</td><td>(80.6)</td><td>732</td><td>(79.0)</td></tr><tr><td> Female</td><td>1,578</td><td>(22.1)</td><td>8,930</td><td>(44.1)</td><td>358</td><td>(16.5)</td><td>927</td><td>(29.0)</td><td>1,060</td><td>(25.4)</td><td>7,808</td><td>(49.3)</td><td>160</td><td>(19.4)</td><td>195</td><td>(21.0)</td></tr><tr><td>
<italic>Age</italic> (mean, SD)</td><td>61.6</td><td>(11.4)</td><td>57.0</td><td>(14.4)</td><td>65.4</td><td>(9.7)</td><td>63.3</td><td>(10.9)</td><td>59.0</td><td>(11.1)</td><td>55.3</td><td>(14.5)</td><td>64.9</td><td>(13.1)</td><td>66.1</td><td>(12.2)</td></tr><tr><td> < 50</td><td>961</td><td>(13.4)</td><td>5,665</td><td>(28.4)</td><td>135</td><td>(6.2)</td><td>308</td><td>(9.6)</td><td>723</td><td>(17.3)</td><td>5,271</td><td>(33.3)</td><td>103</td><td>(12.5)</td><td>86</td><td>(9.3)</td></tr><tr><td> 50– 59</td><td>1,832</td><td>(25.6)</td><td>4,501</td><td>(22.5)</td><td>407</td><td>(18.7)</td><td>787</td><td>(24.6)</td><td>1,261</td><td>(30.2)</td><td>3,549</td><td>(22.4)</td><td>164</td><td>(19.9)</td><td>165</td><td>(17.8)</td></tr><tr><td> 60–64</td><td>1,399</td><td>(19.5)</td><td>2,772</td><td>(13.9)</td><td>381</td><td>(17.5)</td><td>555</td><td>(17.4)</td><td>929</td><td>(22.3)</td><td>2,1</td><td>(13.2)</td><td>89</td><td>(10.8)</td><td>117</td><td>(12.6)</td></tr><tr><td> 65–69</td><td>1,122</td><td>(15.6)</td><td>2,842</td><td>(14.2)</td><td>482</td><td>(22.2)</td><td>567</td><td>(17.7)</td><td>522</td><td>(12.5)</td><td>2,138</td><td>(13.5)</td><td>118</td><td>(14.3)</td><td>137</td><td>(14.8)</td></tr><tr><td> ≥ 70</td><td>1,856</td><td>(25.9)</td><td>4,195</td><td>(21.0)</td><td>770</td><td>(35.4)</td><td>979</td><td>(30.6)</td><td>734</td><td>(17.6)</td><td>2,794</td><td>(17.6)</td><td>352</td><td>(42.6)</td><td>422</td><td>(45.5)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Ethnic group</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Caucasian</td><td>4,438</td><td>(61.9)</td><td>15,057</td><td>(75.4)</td><td>593</td><td>(27.3)</td><td>831</td><td>(26.0)</td><td>3,845</td><td>(92.2)</td><td>14,226</td><td>(89.2)</td><td>782</td><td>(94.7)</td><td>767</td><td>(82.7)</td></tr><tr><td> Mixed</td><td>9</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>10</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>9</td><td>(0.2)</td><td>10</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Asian</td><td>788</td><td>(11.0)</td><td>895</td><td>(4.5)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>6</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>128</td><td>(0.8)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Black</td><td>52</td><td>(0.7)</td><td>748</td><td>(3.7)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>52</td><td>(1.2)</td><td>748</td><td>(4.7)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Any other ethnic group</td><td>64</td><td>(0.9)</td><td>232</td><td>(1.2)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>21</td><td>(0.5)</td><td>72</td><td>(0.5)</td><td>43</td><td>(5.2)</td><td>160</td><td>(17.3)</td></tr><tr><td> Unknown</td><td>1,819</td><td>(25.4)</td><td>3,033</td><td>(15.2)</td><td>1,582</td><td>(72.7)</td><td>2,365</td><td>(74.0)</td><td>236</td><td>(5.7)</td><td>668</td><td>(4.2)</td><td>1</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Tobacco smoking status</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Current smoker</td><td>2,95</td><td>(41.1)</td><td>6,98</td><td>(34.9)</td><td>1,038</td><td>(47.7)</td><td>1,022</td><td>(32.0)</td><td>1,564</td><td>(37.5)</td><td>5,695</td><td>(35.9)</td><td>348</td><td>(42.1)</td><td>263</td><td>(28.4)</td></tr><tr><td> Former smoker</td><td>2,703</td><td>(37.7)</td><td>5,269</td><td>(26.4)</td><td>747</td><td>(34.3)</td><td>1,025</td><td>(32.1)</td><td>1,731</td><td>(41.5)</td><td>3,943</td><td>(24.9)</td><td>225</td><td>(27.2)</td><td>301</td><td>(32.5)</td></tr><tr><td> Never smoker</td><td>1,517</td><td>(21.2)</td><td>7,726</td><td>(38.7)</td><td>390</td><td>(17.9)</td><td>1,149</td><td>(36.0)</td><td>874</td><td>(21.0)</td><td>6,214</td><td>(39.2)</td><td>253</td><td>(30.6)</td><td>363</td><td>(39.2)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Staging</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Non–invasive</td><td>2,246</td><td>(31.3)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>511</td><td>(23.5)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>1,606</td><td>(38.5)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>129</td><td>(15.6)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Invasive</td><td>609</td><td>(8.5)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>73</td><td>(3.4)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>366</td><td>(8.8)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>170</td><td>(20.6)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Unknown</td><td>4,315</td><td>(60.2)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>1,591</td><td>(73.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>2,197</td><td>(52.7)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>527</td><td>(63.8)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Continent</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Europe</td><td>2,175</td><td>(30.3)</td><td>3,196</td><td>(16.0)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> America</td><td>4,169</td><td>(58.1)</td><td>15,852</td><td>(79.4)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Asia</td><td>826</td><td>(11.5)</td><td>927</td><td>(4.6)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Cohort studies</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Gender</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Male</td><td>2,866</td><td>(69.2)</td><td>205,678</td><td>(31.4)</td><td>2,544</td><td>(74.9)</td><td>146,333</td><td>(27.5)</td><td>338</td><td>(76.1)</td><td>39,983</td><td>(52.3)</td><td>216</td><td>(71.8)</td><td>19,362</td><td>(40.7)</td></tr><tr><td> Female</td><td>1,277</td><td>(30.8)</td><td>449,827</td><td>(68.6)</td><td>854</td><td>(25.1)</td><td>385,124</td><td>(72.5)</td><td>106</td><td>(23.9)</td><td>36,454</td><td>(47.7)</td><td>85</td><td>(28.2)</td><td>28,249</td><td>(59.3)</td></tr><tr><td>
<italic>Age</italic> (mean, SD)</td><td>61.1</td><td>(8.5)</td><td>51.8</td><td>(10.8)</td><td>60.9</td><td>(7.9)</td><td>50.4</td><td>(10.2)</td><td>66.4</td><td>(6.4)</td><td>61.4</td><td>(7.4)</td><td>55.7</td><td>(12.0)</td><td>52.0</td><td>(13.6)</td></tr><tr><td> < 50</td><td>380</td><td>(9.2)</td><td>270,949</td><td>(41.3)</td><td>277</td><td>(8.2)</td><td>249,151</td><td>(46.9)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>103</td><td>(34.2)</td><td>21,798</td><td>(45.8)</td></tr><tr><td> 50–59</td><td>1,305</td><td>(31.5)</td><td>232,316</td><td>(35.4)</td><td>1,154</td><td>(34.0)</td><td>184,999</td><td>(34.8)</td><td>69</td><td>(15.5)</td><td>35,193</td><td>(46.0)</td><td>82</td><td>(27.2)</td><td>12,124</td><td>(25.5)</td></tr><tr><td> 60–64</td><td>1,114</td><td>(26.9)</td><td>81,842</td><td>(12.5)</td><td>974</td><td>(28.7)</td><td>62,868</td><td>(11.8)</td><td>92</td><td>(20.7)</td><td>13,923</td><td>(18.2)</td><td>48</td><td>(15.9)</td><td>5,051</td><td>(10.6)</td></tr><tr><td> 65–69</td><td>757</td><td>(18.3)</td><td>39,082</td><td>(6.0)</td><td>610</td><td>(18.0)</td><td>22,425</td><td>(4.2)</td><td>109</td><td>(24.5)</td><td>12,561</td><td>(16.4)</td><td>38</td><td>(12.6)</td><td>4,096</td><td>(8.6)</td></tr><tr><td> ≥ 70</td><td>587</td><td>(14.2)</td><td>31,316</td><td>(4.8)</td><td>383</td><td>(11.3)</td><td>12,014</td><td>(2.3)</td><td>174</td><td>(39.2)</td><td>14,760</td><td>(19.3)</td><td>30</td><td>(10.0)</td><td>4,542</td><td>(9.5)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Ethnic group</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Caucasian</td><td>3,815</td><td>(92.1)</td><td>602,416</td><td>(91.9)</td><td>3,398</td><td>(100)</td><td>531,457</td><td>(100)</td><td>417</td><td>(93.9)</td><td>70,959</td><td>(92.8)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Asian</td><td>314</td><td>(7.6)</td><td>50,651</td><td>(7.7)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>13</td><td>(2.9)</td><td>3,04</td><td>(4.0)</td><td>301</td><td>(100)</td><td>47,611</td><td>(100)</td></tr><tr><td> Black</td><td>7</td><td>(0.2)</td><td>969</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>7</td><td>(1.6)</td><td>969</td><td>1.3)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Any other ethnic group</td><td>1</td><td>(0.0)</td><td>475</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>1</td><td>(0.2)</td><td>475</td><td>(0.6)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Unknown</td><td>6</td><td>(0.1)</td><td>994</td><td>(0.2)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>6</td><td>(1.4)</td><td>994</td><td>(1.3)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Tobacco smoking status</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Current smoker</td><td>1,677</td><td>(40.5)</td><td>156,467</td><td>(23.9)</td><td>1,418</td><td>(41.7)</td><td>130,871</td><td>(24.6)</td><td>61</td><td>(13.7)</td><td>6,411</td><td>(8.4)</td><td>198</td><td>(65.8)</td><td>19,185</td><td>(40.3)</td></tr><tr><td> Former smoker</td><td>1,594</td><td>(38.5)</td><td>185,006</td><td>(28.2)</td><td>1,296</td><td>(38.1)</td><td>149,472</td><td>(28.1)</td><td>280</td><td>(63.1)</td><td>33,651</td><td>(44.0)</td><td>18</td><td>(6.0)</td><td>1,883</td><td>(4.0)</td></tr><tr><td> Never smoker</td><td>872</td><td>(21.0)</td><td>314,032</td><td>(47.9)</td><td>684</td><td>(20.1)</td><td>251,114</td><td>(47.3)</td><td>103</td><td>(23.2)</td><td>36,375</td><td>47.6)</td><td>85</td><td>(28.2)</td><td>26,543</td><td>(55.7)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Staging</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Non–invasive</td><td>1,196</td><td>(28.9)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>1,196</td><td>(35.2)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Invasive</td><td>661</td><td>(16.0)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>661</td><td>(19.5)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Unknown</td><td>2,286</td><td>(55.2)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>1,541</td><td>(45.4)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>444</td><td>(100)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>301</td><td>(100)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17"><italic>Continent</italic></td></tr><tr><td> Europe</td><td>3,398</td><td>(82.0)</td><td>531,457</td><td>(81.1)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> America</td><td>444</td><td>(10.7)</td><td>76,437</td><td>(11.7)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td> Asia</td><td>301</td><td>(7.3)</td><td>47,611</td><td>(7.3)</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p><p>Although all of the studies used a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), the number of food items assessed varied widely (Table <xref rid="Tab3" ref-type="table">3</xref>). Two studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>] only asked three and two specific items (beer, coffee and decaffeinated coffee), while others assessed dietary intake in more detail (from 9 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>] to 788 food items [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>]). The mean number of food items per questionnaire was 107 and 132 after exclusion of those studies that reported only on beverages [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]. Most studies with a FFQ of more than 40 items had detailed information on dietary intake of meat, vegetables, fruit and beverages. The use of a validated FFQ questionnaire was reported in eight studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>], while one study checked the reproducibility of its FFQ [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]. Most of the studies assessed portion size, while four studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR29">29</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>] reported the quantitative intake of food items in grams. Six studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>] also provided data on nutrients.<table-wrap id="Tab3"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Number of food items and portion size reported by each study within the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th> Study</th><th>Food items (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th>Portion size</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="3">Case–control studies</td></tr><tr><td> Los-Angeles bladder cancer Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>]</td><td>49</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Roswell Park Cancer Institute [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>]</td><td>44</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Belgian Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>]</td><td>788</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Aichi Prefecture Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>]</td><td>107</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Kaohsiung [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>]</td><td>41</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Hessen Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>]</td><td>26</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> Stockholm Case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>]</td><td>188</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Roswell Park Memorial Institute Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>]</td><td>64</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Reina Sofia University [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>]</td><td>17</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> New Hampshire bladder cancer study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>]</td><td>121</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Italian Case–control study on bladder cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]</td><td>21</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> Brescia bladder cancer study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>]</td><td>40</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Dortmund Hörde study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>]</td><td>3</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> National Enhanced Cancer Surveillance System (NESCC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>]</td><td>69</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> French INSERM study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]</td><td>2</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> South and East China Case–control study on bladder and prostate cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>]</td><td>52</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> Molecular Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer and Prostate Cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>90</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> North Carolina case control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>]</td><td>9</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Cohort studies</td></tr><tr><td> Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) & the Cohort of Swedish Men [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>]</td><td>96</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer, the Netherlands, 1986–2003 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR29">29</xref>]</td><td>150</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> Women’s Lifestyle and Health Study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>]</td><td>98</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> RERF atomic bomb survivors Study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>]</td><td>102</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td> Vital study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>]</td><td>126</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td> European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>260<sup>a</sup></td><td>Yes</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><sup>a</sup>Dietary intake was assessed by a number of different instruments in the participating countries and the number of different food items varied from 88 (Norway) to 2443 (Sweden)</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p><p>The consumption of beverages was reported in all the eighteen case–control studies. Five case–control studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>] had detailed information for each of the larger food categories of the Eurocode 2 Food Coding System, while three studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>] missed only data on sugar and/or fat (Table <xref rid="Tab4" ref-type="table">4</xref>). Fat, grains, nuts and sugar were also missing in another four studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>]. The six cohort studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>] had detailed information in each food categories with the exception of the RERF atomic bomb survivors study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>] which had no data on sugar intake.<table-wrap id="Tab4"><label>Table 4</label><caption><p>Numbers of cases and controls available for each food category included in the Bladder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study (BLEND)</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th></th><th colspan="4">All Countries</th><th colspan="4">Europe</th><th colspan="4">America</th><th colspan="4">Asia</th></tr><tr><th></th><th colspan="2">Men</th><th colspan="2">Women</th><th colspan="2">Men</th><th colspan="2">Women</th><th colspan="2">Men</th><th colspan="2">Women</th><th colspan="2">Men</th><th colspan="2">Women</th></tr><tr><th>Food category (number of studies)</th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Ca<break></break><italic>N</italic></th><th>Co<break></break><italic>N</italic></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Case–control studies</td></tr><tr><td>Milk and milk products (13) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,734</td><td>9,251</td><td>1,388</td><td>7,442</td><td>1,231</td><td>1,514</td><td>266</td><td>783</td><td>2,838</td><td>7,005</td><td>962</td><td>6,464</td><td>665</td><td>732</td><td>160</td><td>195</td></tr><tr><td>Eggs and eggs products (11) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,299</td><td>6,531</td><td>1,255</td><td>3,974</td><td>1,230</td><td>1,512</td><td>265</td><td>781</td><td>2,436</td><td>4,141</td><td>839</td><td>3,034</td><td>633</td><td>605</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Meat and meat products (12) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,699</td><td>9235</td><td>1,377</td><td>7,716</td><td>1,231</td><td>1,513</td><td>265</td><td>783</td><td>2,833</td><td>7,114</td><td>961</td><td>6,774</td><td>635</td><td>608</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Fish and fish products (11) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>3,197</td><td>7,391</td><td>960</td><td>7,144</td><td>1,229</td><td>1,511</td><td>265</td><td>781</td><td>1,335</td><td>5,275</td><td>544</td><td>6,204</td><td>633</td><td>605</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Fats and oils (7) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>2,299</td><td>2,292</td><td>634</td><td>984</td><td>371</td><td>500</td><td>94</td><td>419</td><td>1,689</td><td>1,559</td><td>484</td><td>506</td><td>239</td><td>233</td><td>56</td><td>59</td></tr><tr><td>Grain and grain products (11) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,050</td><td>8,481</td><td>1,209</td><td>7,404</td><td>574</td><td>721</td><td>94</td><td>424</td><td>2,841</td><td>7,153</td><td>964</td><td>6,821</td><td>635</td><td>607</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Pulses, seeds and nut products (8) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>2,108</td><td>4,255</td><td>715</td><td>3,270</td><td>371</td><td>499</td><td>94</td><td>421</td><td>1,106</td><td>3,151</td><td>470</td><td>2,690</td><td>631</td><td>605</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Vegetables (13) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,942</td><td>10,086</td><td>1,403</td><td>8,648</td><td>1,429</td><td>1,727</td><td>265</td><td>783</td><td>2,881</td><td>7,754</td><td>987</td><td>7,706</td><td>632</td><td>605</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Fruit and fruit products (13) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>4,860</td><td>9,307</td><td>1,376</td><td>7,615</td><td>1,414</td><td>1,713</td><td>265</td><td>781</td><td>2,814</td><td>6,989</td><td>960</td><td>6,675</td><td>632</td><td>605</td><td>151</td><td>159</td></tr><tr><td>Sugar products (7) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]</td><td>1,613</td><td>3,438</td><td>582</td><td>3,020</td><td>446</td><td>591</td><td>105</td><td>463</td><td>935</td><td>2,615</td><td>421</td><td>2,499</td><td>232</td><td>232</td><td>56</td><td>58</td></tr><tr><td>Beverages (18) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>]</td><td>5,509</td><td>10193</td><td>1,538</td><td>7,640</td><td>1,814</td><td>2,269</td><td>357</td><td>926</td><td>3,030</td><td>7,192</td><td>1,021</td><td>6,519</td><td>665</td><td>732</td><td>160</td><td>195</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Cohort studies</td></tr><tr><td>Milk and milk products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,615</td><td>184,424</td><td>1,159</td><td>422,716</td><td>2,495</td><td>146,183</td><td>835</td><td>384,864</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2,488</td><td>10</td><td>4,110</td></tr><tr><td>Eggs and eggs products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,585</td><td>184,284</td><td>1,147</td><td>421,392</td><td>2,465</td><td>146,039</td><td>823</td><td>383,535</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2,492</td><td>10</td><td>4,115</td></tr><tr><td>Meat and meat products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,614</td><td>184,420</td><td>1,156</td><td>422,122</td><td>2,494</td><td>146,171</td><td>832</td><td>384,262</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2,496</td><td>10</td><td>4,118</td></tr><tr><td>Fish and fish products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,613</td><td>184,406</td><td>1,157</td><td>421,976</td><td>2,493</td><td>146,157</td><td>833</td><td>384,116</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2,496</td><td>10</td><td>4,118</td></tr><tr><td>Fats and oils (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,527</td><td>181,544</td><td>1,130</td><td>421,335</td><td>2,420</td><td>146,029</td><td>810</td><td>384,710</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>21</td><td>1,762</td><td>6</td><td>2,883</td></tr><tr><td>Grain and grain products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,618</td><td>184,446</td><td>1,158</td><td>422,738</td><td>2,498</td><td>146,194</td><td>834</td><td>384,876</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>24,99</td><td>10</td><td>4,120</td></tr><tr><td>Pulses, seeds and nut products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,563</td><td>184,228</td><td>1,143</td><td>420,368</td><td>2,443</td><td>145,984</td><td>819</td><td>382,512</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2,491</td><td>10</td><td>4,114</td></tr><tr><td>Vegetables (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,616</td><td>184,432</td><td>1,157</td><td>422,236</td><td>2,496</td><td>146,184</td><td>833</td><td>384,376</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2495</td><td>10</td><td>4118</td></tr><tr><td>Fruit and fruit products (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,607</td><td>184,416</td><td>1,155</td><td>421,526</td><td>2,487</td><td>146,170</td><td>831</td><td>383,666</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>34</td><td>2493</td><td>10</td><td>4118</td></tr><tr><td>Sugar products (5) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,556</td><td>181,860</td><td>1,143</td><td>417,615</td><td>2,470</td><td>146,107</td><td>829</td><td>383,873</td><td>86</td><td>35,753</td><td>314</td><td>33,742</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Beverages (6) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>]</td><td>2,630</td><td>187,445</td><td>1,172</td><td>424,778</td><td>2,497</td><td>146,190</td><td>835</td><td>384,868</td><td>99</td><td>38,760</td><td>327</td><td>35,793</td><td>34</td><td>2495</td><td>10</td><td>4117</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><p><italic>Abbreviations</italic>: <italic>Ca</italic> cases, <italic>Co</italic> controls, <italic>N</italic> number</p></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec6"><title>Discussion</title><p>The high number of cases (11,261) and controls (675,532) from 24 epidemiological studies included in the BLEND study makes the BLEND study the largest dataset on diet and UBC worldwide. A large sample size provides the potential to analyze in more detail food items rarely consumed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR35">35</xref>] and allows delineating the generally weak association between UBC cancer and dietary intake for food categories. The advantage of pooling individual data compared to meta-analysis of aggregate data are multiple: it increases the power to detect the effect for food items more rarely consumed, it allows to adjust for the same confounding factors, gender, age, and smoking status, to test for interaction and to perform subgroup analyses [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR36">36</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>].</p><p>Demographic data in the BLEND study are consistent with the IARC CancerBase [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>]. The male/female ratio in our dataset was 3:1. Worldwide the male/female ratio is 3.3:1. Europe is responsible for nearly 40 % of the UBC cases worldwide while the Asian population account for 28 % of the UBC incidence [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>]. In our dataset, 49 % of the cases are from Europe while only 10 % of the cases are from Asia. The African and the Eastern Mediterranean region is responsible for only 9 % of the UBC incidence worldwide [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>]. These regions are not represented in our dataset. In America and Europe, more than 90 % of the UBC cases are transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), while in Africa, up tot 40 % of the UBC cases can be squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR39">39</xref>] due to infection with Schistosoma haematobium (Bilharziasis) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR40">40</xref>]. The Egyptian multi-center case–control study [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR41">41</xref>] had not yet been published when we collected our data. So, pooling of the data of the different countries is possible because most industrialized countries are likely to share the same risk factors for UBC. Otherwise, it will be possible to stratify analyses by region given the large number of included participants. We aim to update the BLEND database in the future with new available studies.</p></sec><sec id="Sec7"><title>Conclusion</title><p>The available data in the very large BLEND database will allow us to test associations between individual food items of the different food items categories, even those less commonly consumed, and the risk for UBC. We will also investigate food patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and the influence of nutrients on the risk of UBC. In addition, the large sample size will allow subgroup analyses.</p></sec><sec id="Sec8"><title>Abbreviations</title><p>BLEND, the BLadder cancer, Epidemiology, and Nutritional Determinants study; FFQ, food frequency questionnaire; OR, odds ratio; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; SD, standard deviation; TCC, transitional cell carcinoma; TNM, TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors; UBC, urinary bladder cancer; WCRF, World Cancer Research Fund.</p></sec></body><back><ack><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>We acknowledge all principal investigators for their willingness to participate in this jointed project.</p><sec id="FPar1"><title>Funding</title><p>Hessen Case–control study on bladder cancer was supported by the Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz (No. F 1287). The Aichi Prefecture Case–control study was supported by a Smoking Research Foundation Grant for Biomedical Research. The Kaohsiung study was supported by grant NSC 85-2332-B-037-066 from the National Scientific Council of the Republic of China. The Stockholm Case–control study was supported by grant from the Swedish National Cancer Society and from the Swedish Work Environment Fund. The Roswell Park Memorial Institute Case–control study on bladder cancer was supported by Public Health Service Grants CA11535 and CA16056 from the National Cancer Institute.</p><p>The New England bladder cancer study was funded in part by grant numbers 5 P42 ES007373 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH and CA57494 from the National Cancer Institute, NIH. The Italian Case–control study on bladder cancer was conducted within the framework of the CNR (Italian National Research Council) Applied Project “Clinical Application of Oncological Research” (contracts 94.01321.PF39 and 94.01119.PF39), and with the contributions of the Italian Association for Cancer Research, the Italian League against Tumours, Milan, and Mrs. Angela Marchegiano Borgomainerio.</p><p>The Brescia bladder cancer study was partly supported by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The French INSERM study was supported by a grant from the Direction Générale de la Santé, Ministère des Affaires Sociales, France. The Molecular Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer and Prostate Cancer was supported in part by grants ES06718 (to Z.-F.Z.), U01 CA96116 (to A.B.), and CA09142 from the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Health and Human Services, and by the Ann Fitzpatrick Alper Program in Environmental Genomics at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA. The Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) & the Cohort of Swedish Men was supported by the Swedish Cancer Foundation, Örebro County Council Research Committee, and Swedish Research Council Committee for Infrastructure. The Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer was supported by the Dutch Cancer Society. The RERF atomic bomb survivors Study was supported by The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, a public interest foundation funded by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) and the US Department of Energy (DOE). The research was also funded in part through DOE award DE-HS0000031 to the National Academy of Sciences. This publication was supported by RERF Research Protocol RP-A5-12. The VITamins and Lifestyle Study (VITAL) was supported by a grant (R01CA74846) from the National Cancer Institute. The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) was carried out with financial support of the ‘Europe Against Cancer’ Programme of the European Commision (SANCO); Ligue contre le Cancer (France); Société 3 M (France); Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); Institute Gustave Roussy; German Cancer Aid; German Cancer Research Centre; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; Danish Cancer Society; Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Spanish Ministry of Health; the Spanish Regional Governments of Andalucia, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra; Cancer Research UK; Medical Research Council, UK; Stroke Association, UK; British Heart Foundation; Department of Health, UK; Food Standards Agency, UK; Wellcome Trust, UK; Greek Ministry of Health; Greek Ministry of Education; Italian Association for Research on Cancer; Italian National Research Council; Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports; Dutch Prevention Funds; LK Research Funds; Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland); World Cancer Research Fund; Swedish Cancer Society; Swedish Scientific Council; Regional Government of Skane, Sweden; Norwegian Cancer Society; Norwegian Research Council. Partial support for the publication of this supplement was provided by the Centre de Recherche et d’Information Nutritionnelles (CERIN).</p></sec><sec id="FPar2"><title>Availability of data and material</title><p>The dataset described in this article will be available at Dataverse (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://dataverse.nl/dvn/">https://dataverse.nl/dvn/</ext-link>).</p></sec><sec id="FPar3"><title>Authors’ contributions</title><p>MEG collected and harmonized data, performed the statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript. F.I., D.M., R.R. and A.W. harmonized the data, reviewed and edited the manuscript. M.B. collected the data and reviewed and edited the manuscript. SB, BB, MFA, KG, EG, XJ, KCJ, MRK, EK, ClV, CML, JM, HP, SP, GS, LT, JT, PvdB, PJV, KW, EW, EW, AW and ZFZ provided the data, reviewed and edited the manuscript. FB reviewed and edited the manuscript, and MPZ. supervised the study, reviewed and edited the manuscript. 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