A data mining approach to investigate food groups related to incidence of bladder cancer in the BLadder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants International Study. Issue 6 (23rd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yu, Evan Y. W.; Wesselius, Anke; Sinhart, Christoph; Wolk, Alicja; Stern, Mariana Carla; Jiang, Xuejuan; Tang, Li; Marshall, James; Kellen, Eliane; van den Brandt, Piet; Lu, Chih-Ming; Pohlabeln, Hermann; Steineck, Gunnar; Allam, Mohamed Farouk; Karagas, Margaret R.; La Vecchia, Carlo; Porru, Stefano; Carta, Angela; Golka, Klaus; Johnson, Kenneth C.; Benhamou, Simone; Zhang, Zuo-Feng; Bosetti, Cristina; Taylor, Jack A.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Grant, Eric J.; White, Emily; Polesel, Jerry; Zeegers, Maurice P. A.
• Is Part Of: British journal of nutrition. Volume 124:Issue 6(2020)
• Page Start: 611
• Page End: 619
• Publication Date: 2020-04-23
• Subjects: Bladder cancer, -- Data mining, -- Food groups, -- Epidemiological studies; Nutrition -- Periodicals; 572.4
• DOI: 10.1017/S0007114520001439
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1145

Abstract

Abstract: At present, analysis of diet and bladder cancer (BC) is mostly based on the intake of individual foods. The examination of food combinations provides a scope to deal with the complexity and unpredictability of the diet and aims to overcome the limitations of the study of nutrients and foods in isolation. This article aims to demonstrate the usability of supervised data mining methods to extract the food groups related to BC. In order to derive key food groups associated with BC risk, we applied the data mining technique C5.0 with 10-fold cross-validation in the BLadder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study, including data from eighteen case–control and one nested case–cohort study, compromising 8320 BC cases out of 31 551 participants. Dietary data, on the eleven main food groups of the Eurocode 2 Core classification codebook, and relevant non-diet data (i.e. sex, age and smoking status) were available. Primarily, five key food groups were extracted; in order of importance, beverages (non-milk); grains and grain products; vegetables and vegetable products; fats, oils and their products; meats and meat products were associated with BC risk. Since these food groups are corresponded with previously proposed BC-related dietary factors, data mining seems to be a promising technique in the field of nutritional epidemiology and deserves further examination.