Diet and Bladder Cancer

BLEND (Bladder Cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants) is a consortium that studies how diet relates to bladder cancer. The analyses are coordinated by the Department of Epidemiology at Maastricht University.

Publications

  1. Zhang Y-X, et al. The association between tea consumption and bladder cancer risk based on the BLEND international consortium. Nutr Cancer. 2025. doi:10.1080/01635581.2025.2488063 · PubMed
  2. Beigrezaei S, et al. The association between animal protein, plant protein, and their substitution with bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies. Eur J Nutr. 2024. doi:10.1007/s00394-024-03551-3 · PubMed
  3. Boot IWA, et al. Fruits and vegetables intake and bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis from 11 case-control studies in the BLEND consortium. Eur J Nutr. 2024. doi:10.1007/s00394-024-03436-5 · PubMed
  4. Dianatinasab M, et al. Dietary fats and their sources in association with the risk of bladder cancer: a pooled analysis of 11 prospective cohort studies. Int J Cancer. 2022. doi:10.1002/ijc.33970 · PubMed
  5. Al-Zalabani AH, et al. Tea consumption and risk of bladder cancer in the BLEND study: pooled analysis of 12 international cohort studies. Clin Nutr. 2022. doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2022.03.020 · PubMed
  6. Yu EY-W, et al. Vegetable intake and the risk of bladder cancer in the BLEND international study. BMC Med. 2021. doi:10.1186/s12916-021-01931-8 · PubMed
  7. Dianatinasab M, et al. Adherence to a Western dietary pattern and risk of bladder cancer: a pooled analysis of 13 cohort studies of the BLEND international study. Int J Cancer. 2020. doi:10.1002/ijc.33173 · PubMed
  8. Yu EYW, et al. Coffee consumption and risk of bladder cancer: a pooled analysis of 501,604 participants from 12 cohort studies in the BLEND international study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2020. doi:10.1007/s10654-019-00597-0 · PubMed
  9. Witlox WJA, et al. An inverse association between the Mediterranean diet and bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 13 cohort studies. Eur J Nutr. 2019. doi:10.1007/s00394-019-01907-8 · PubMed
  10. Acham M, et al. Intake of milk and other dairy products and the risk of bladder cancer: a pooled analysis of 13 cohort studies. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2019. doi:10.1038/s41430-019-0453-6 · PubMed
  11. Yu EY-W, et al. The association between coffee consumption and bladder cancer in the BLEND international pooled study. Cancer Causes Control. 2019. doi:10.1007/s10552-019-01191-1 · PubMed
  12. Goossens ME, et al. International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the BLEND study: design and baseline characteristics. Arch Public Health. 2016. doi:10.1186/s13690-016-0140-1 · PubMed