Body mass index and the risk of male cancer mortality of various sites: 17-Year follow-up of the Basel cohort study

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 27-33

  Eichholzer, Monika ^a,c   Bernasconi, Florence ^a   Jordan, Paul ^a   Stähelin, Hannes B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Geriatrische Universitatsklinik   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BMI; Cancer mortality; Cohort study; Colon cancer; Lung cancer; Overall cancer; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 12944302079     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity. Overweight, obesity, and health risk. Arch Intern Med 2000; 160:898-904.
2. World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research. Food, nutrition and the prevention of cancer: a global perspective. Washington: AICR, WCRF; 1997.
3. Carroll KK. Obesity as a risk factor for certain types of cancer. Lipids 1998;33:1055-9.
4. Vainio H, Bianchini F. Weight control and physical activity. IARC handbooks of cancer prevention, vol 6. Lyon: IARC Press, 2002.
5. Calle E, Rodriguez C, Walker-Thurmond K, Thun MJ. Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults. N Engl J Med 2003;348:1625-38.
6. Rodriguez C, Patel A, Calle E,Jacobs E, Chao A, Thun M. Body mass index, height, and prostate cancer mortality in two large cohorts of adult men in the United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2001;10:345-53.
7. Henley SJ, Flanders WD, Manarunga A, Thun MJ. Leanness and lung cancer risk: fact or artefact? Epidemiology 2002;13: 268-76.
8. Capra S, Ferguson M, Ried K. Cancer: Impact of nutrition intervention outcome - nutrition issues for patients. Nutrition 2001;17:769-72.
9. DeWys WD, Begg C, Lavin PT, Band PR, Bennett JM, Bertino JR, et al. Prognostic effect of weight loss prior to chemotherapy in cancer patients. Am J Med 1980;69:491-7.
10. Corli O, Cozzolino A, Battaiotto L, Bernoni M, Gallina A. A new method of food intake quantification: application to the care of cancer patients. J Pain Symptom Manage 1992;7:12-7.
11. Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Hennekens CH, Willett WC. Body weight and longevity. JAMA 1987;257:353-8.
12. Allison DB, Heo M, Flanders DW, Faith MS, Williamson DF. Examination of "early mortality exclusion" as an approach to control for confounding by occult disease in epidemiologic studies of mortality risk factors. Am J Epidemiol 1997;146: 672-80.
13. Allison DB, Faith MS, Heo M, Townsend-Butterworth D, Williamson DF. Meta-analysis of the effect of excluding early deaths on the estimated relationship between body mass index and morality. Obes Res 1999;7:342-54.
14. Cox DR. Regression models and life tables. J roy statist soc (ser. B) 1972;34:187-220.
15. Kalbfleisch JD, Prentice RL. The statistical analysis of failure time data. New York: John Wiley;1980.
16. Grambsch P, Therneau T. Proportional hazards tests and diagnostics based on weighted residuals. Biometrika 1994;81: 515-26.
17. S-Plus Version 6.1 for Windows: 2002.
18. Seidell JC, Verschuren W, van Leer E, Kromhout D. Overweight, underweight, and mortality. A prospective study of 48287 men and women. Arch Intern Med 1996;156:958-63.
19. Baik I, Ascherio A, Rimm E, Giovannucci E, Spiegelman D, Stampfer M, et al. Adiposity and mortality in men. Am J Epidemiol 2000;152:264-71.
20. Garfinkel L. Overweight and mortality. Cancer (Phila.) 1986; 58:1826-9.
21. Inoue M, Sobue T, Tsugane S, JPHC Study Group. Impact of body mass index on the risk of total cancer incidence and mortality among middle-aged Japanese: data from a large-scale population-based cohort study - The JPHC Study. Cancer Causes Control 2004;15:671-80.
22. Wolk A, Gridley G, Svensson M, Nyren O, McLaughlin JK, Fraumeni JF, et al. A prospective study of obesity and cancer risk (Sweden). Cancer Causes Control 2001;12:13-21.
23. Rauscher GH, Mayne ST, Janerich DT. Relation between body mass index and lung cancer risk in men and women never and former smokers. Am J Epidemiol 2000;152:506-13.
24. Sandhu MS, Dunger DB, Giovannucci EL. Insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), IGF binding proteins, their biologic interactions, and colorectal cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2002; 94:972-80.
25. Engeland A, Tretli S, Bjorge T. Height, body mass index, and prostate cancer: a follow-up of 950000 Norwegian men. Br J Cancer 2003;89:1237-42.
26. Porter MP, Stanford JL. Obesity and the risk of prostate cancer. Prostate 2004;9999:1-6
27. Giovannucci E, Rimm EB, Liu Y, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC. Body mass index and risk of prostate cancer in U.S. Health Professionals. J Natl Cancer Inst 2003;95:1240-1244.
28. Andersson SO, Wolk A, Bergstrom R, Adami HO, Engholm G, Englund A, et al. Body size and prostate cancer: a 20-year follow-up study among 135006 Swedish dish construction workers. J Natl Cancer Inst 1997;89:385-9.
29. Snowdown DA, Phillips RL, Choi W. Diet, obesity, and risk of fatal prostate cancer. Am J Epidemiol 1984;120:244-50.
30. Giovannucci E, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Willett WC. Height, body weight, and risk of prostate cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1997;6:557-63.
31. Cerhan JR, Torner JC, Lynch CF, Rubenstein LM, Lemke JH, Cohen MB, et al. Association of smoking, body mass, and physical activity with risk of prostate cancer in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study (United States). Cancer Causes Control 1997; 8:229-38.
32. Schuurman AG, Goldbohm RA, Dorant E, van den Brandt P. Anthropometry in relation to prostate cancer risk in the Netherlands Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol 2000;151:541-9.
33. Suadicani P, Hein HO, Gyntelberg F. Height, weight, and risk of colorectal cancer. An 18-year follow-up in a cohort of 5249 men. Scand J Gastroenterol 1993;28:285-88.
34. Tamakoshi K, Wakai K, Kojima M, Watanabe Y, Hayakawa N, Toyoshima H, et al. A prospective study of body size and colon cancer mortality in Japan: The JACC Study. Int J Obes 2004; 28:551-8.