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Associations between metabolic disorders and risk of cancer in Danish men and women – a nationwide cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, February 2016
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Title
Associations between metabolic disorders and risk of cancer in Danish men and women – a nationwide cohort study
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BMC Cancer, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12885-016-2122-7
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Siv Mari Berger, Gunnar Gislason, Lynn L. Moore, Charlotte Andersson, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gerald V. Denis, Michelle Dalgas Schmiegelow

Abstract

The prevalence of metabolic disorders is increasing and has been suggested to increase cancer risk, but the relation between metabolic disorders and risk of cancer is unclear, especially in young adults. We investigated the associations between diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia on risk of all-site as well as site-specific cancers. We consecutively included men and women from nationwide Danish registries 1996-2011, if age 20-89 and without cancer prior to date of entry. We followed them throughout 2012. Metabolic disorders were defined using discharge diagnosis codes and claimed prescriptions. We used time-dependent sex-stratified Poisson regression models adjusted for age and calendar year to assess associations between metabolic disorders, and risk of all-site and site-specific cancer (no metabolic disorders as reference). Over a mean follow-up of 12.6 (±5.7 standard deviations [SD]) years, 4,826,142 individuals (50.2 % women) with a mean age of 41.4 (±18.9 SD) years had 423,942 incident cancers. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of all-site cancer in patients with diabetes or hypertension were highest immediately following diagnosis of metabolic disorder. In women, cancer risk associated with diabetes continued to decline albeit remained significant (IRRs of 1.18-1.22 in years 1-8 following diagnosis). For diabetes in men, and hypertension, IRRs stabilized and remained significantly increased after about one year with IRRs of 1.10-1.13 in men for diabetes, and 1.07-1.14 for hypertension in both sexes. Conversely, no association was observed between hypercholesterolemia (treatment with statins) and cancer risk. The association between hypertension and cancer risk was strongest in young adults aged 20-34 and decreased with advancing age. Diabetes and hypertension were associated with increased risk of all-site cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 26 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Student > Master 4 15%
Librarian 3 11%
Professor 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 6 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Computer Science 1 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 7 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 01 March 2016.
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#14,638,545
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#65
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