Background Diet is known to influence systemic inflammation, a recognized risk factor for
colorectal cancer (CRC). Studies in ethnically diverse populations that examine the
association between dietary inflammatory potential and CRC incidence are limited.
Objective We used the Dietary Inflammatory Index to clarify the relation between the
inflammatory potential of diet and CRC incidence across racial/ethnic groups. We
hypothesized that proinflammatory diets would be associated with an increased risk of CRC …