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Obesity is associated with increased risk of invasive penile cancer

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Urology, July 2016
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Title
Obesity is associated with increased risk of invasive penile cancer
Published in
BMC Urology, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12894-016-0161-7
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Authors

Kerri T. Barnes, Bradley D. McDowell, Anna Button, Brian J. Smith, Charles F. Lynch, Amit Gupta

Abstract

To validate the association between obesity and penile cancer at a population level, we conducted a matched case-control study linking the Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles Drivers' License Database (DLD) with cancer surveillance data collected by the State Health Registry of Iowa (SHRI). All men diagnosed with invasive penile squamous cell carcinoma from 1985 to 2010 were identified by SHRI. Two hundred sixty-six cancer cases and 816 cancer-free male controls, selected from the Iowa DLD, were matched within 5-year age and calendar year strata. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated using self-reported height and weight from the DLD. Conditional logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between BMI and the risk of developing invasive penile cancer. Obesity was significantly associated with an increased risk of developing penile cancer. For every five-unit increase in BMI the risk of invasive penile cancer increased by 53 % (OR 1.53, 95 % CI 1.29-1.81, p < 0.0001). We previously reported an association between obesity and higher risk of invasive penile cancer and advanced cancer stage at diagnosis in a hospital-based retrospective study. This population-based study confirms an association between obesity and invasive penile cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 5 14%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Professor 3 8%
Other 9 25%
Unknown 5 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 47%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 6%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 6 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2018.
All research outputs
#2,952,007
of 22,881,154 outputs
Outputs from BMC Urology
#60
of 751 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,144
of 354,667 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Urology
#1
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