Racial differences in mortality from obesity-related chronic disease in US women diagnosed with breast cancer

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 463-468

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a Connecticut Dept of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7444261422     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, et al. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1999. National Cancer Institute. Available at: http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1973_1999/2002.
2. Burstein HJ, Winer EP. Primary care for survivors of breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2000; 343:1086-1094.
3. Clegg LX, Li FP, Hankey BF, Chu K, Edwards BK. Cancer survival among US Whites and minorities: A SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Program population-based study. Arch Intern Med. 2002; 162:1985-1993.
4. Bach PB, Schrag D, Brawley OW, Galaznik AM, Yakren S, Begg CB. Survival of Blacks and Whites after a cancer diagnosis. JAMA. 2002;287:2106-2113.
5. Satariano WA, Ragland DR. The effect of comorbidity on 3-year survival of women with primary breast cancer. Ann Intern Med. 1994; 120:104-110.
6. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL, Johnson CL. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2000. JAMA. 2002;288: 1723-1727.
7. Mokdad AH, Bowman BA, Ford ES. The continuing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in the United States. JAMA. 2001;286:1195-1200.
8. National Cancer Institute. SEER Cancer Incidence Public-use Database, 1973-2000. November 2002 submission. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute; April 2003.
9. Brownson RC, Remington PL, Davis JR, eds. Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association; 1998.
10. Seidel JC. Time trends in obesity: an epidemiological perspective. Horm Metab Res. 1997;29:155-158.
11. Folsom AR, Stevens J, Schreiner PJ, McGovern PG. Body mass index, waist/hip ratio, and coronary heart disease incidence in African Americans and Whites. Am J Epidemiol. 1998;148:1187-1194.
12. Fontaine KR, Redden DT, Wang C, Westfall AO, Allison DB. Years of life lost due to obesity. JAMA. 2003;289:178-193.
13. Wong MD, Shapiro MF, Boscardin WJ, Ettnet SL. Contribution of major diseases to disparities in mortality. N Engl J Med. 2002; 347: 1585-1592.
14. Coronado GD, Koepsell TD, Thompson B, Schwartz SM, Wharton RS, Grossman JE. Assessing cervical cancer risk in Hispanics. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev. 2002;11: 979-984.
15. Blustein J. The reliability of racial classifications in hospital discharge abstract data. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:1018-1021.
16. Norussis MJ. SPSS Advanced Statistics 6.1. Chicago Ill: SPSS, Inc.; 1994.
17. Frey CM, McMillen MM, Cowan CD, Horm JW, Kessler LG. Representativeness of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program data: recent trends in cancer mortality rates. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1992;84: 872-877.
18. Nattinger AB, McAuliffe TL, Schapira MM. Generalizability of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry population: factors relevant to epidemiologic and healthcare research. J Clin Epidemiol. 1997;50:939-945.
19. Hankey BF, Ries LAG, Edwards BK. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program: a national resource. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev. 1999;8:1117-1121.
20. NAACCR Expert Panel. Report of the NAACCR Expert Panel on Hispanic Identification 2003. Springfield Ill: North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. In press.
21. Hedeen AN, White W Breast cancer size and stage in Hispanic American women, by birthplace: 1992-1995. Am J Public Health. 2001; 91:122-125.
22. Dignam JJ. Efficacy of systemic adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in African-American and Caucasian women. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 2001;30:36-43.
23. Yancik R, Wesley MN, Ries LAG, Havlik RJ, Edwards BK, Yates JW. Effect of age and comorbidity in postmenopausal breast cancer patients aged 55 years and older. JAMA. 2001;285:885-892.
24. Rosamond WD, Chambless LE, Folsom AR, et al. Trends in the incidence of myocardial infarction and in mortality due to coronary heart disease, 1987 to 1994. N Engl J Med. 1998;339:861-867.
25. National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2002. With Chartbook on Trends in Health of Americans. Hyattsville, Md: National Center for Health Ststistics; 2002.
26. Carter JS, Pugh JA, Monterrosa A. Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in minorities in the United States. Ann Intern Med. 1996;125:237-239.
27. McNeely MJ, Boyko EJ, Sholer JB, Newell-Morris L, Leonetti DL, Fujimoto WY. Standard definitions of overweight and central adiposity for determining diabetes risk in Japanese Americans. Am J Clin Nutr 2001;74: 101-107.
28. Deapen D, Liu L, Perkins C, Bernstein L, Ross RK. Rapidly rising breast cancer incidence rates among Asian-American women. Int J Cancer. 2002;99:747-750.
29. Vallis YA, Pintile M, Chong N, et al. Assessment of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality after radiation therapy for early breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2002:1036-1042.
30. Du X, Goodwin JS. Patterns of use of chemotherapy for breast cancer in older women: findings from Medicare claims data. J Clin Oncol. 2001;19:1455-1461.
31. Shavers VL, Brown ML. Racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of cancer treatment. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2002;94:334-357.
32. Lamont EB, Christakis NA, Lauderdale DS. Favorable cardiac risk among elderly breast carcinoma survivors. Cancer. 2003;98:2-10.
33. Brinkley D, Haybittle JL, Alderson MR. Death certification in cancer of the breast. BMJ. 1984;289:465-467.
34. Earle CC, Burstein HJ, Winer EP, Weeks JC. Quality of non-breast cancer health maintenance among elderly breast cancer survivors. J Clin Oncol. 2003;21:1447-1451.
35. Davis SK, Liu Y, Gibbons GH. Disparities in trends of hospitalization for potentially preventable chronic conditions among African Americans during the 1990's: implications and benchmarks. Am J Public Health. 2002; 93:447-455.
36. Chlebowski RT, Aiello E, McTiernan A. Weight loss in breast cancer patient management. J Clin Oncol.2002;20:1128-1143.
37. Franz MJ. Managing obesity in patients with comorbidities. J Am Diet Assoc. 1998; 98(suppl 2):S39-S43.
38. Irwin ML, Crumley D, McTiernan A, et al. Physical activity levels before and after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma: The Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) Study. Cancer. 2003;97:1746-1757.