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Asthma and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Cohort Study in Taiwan.
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- Association between allergic conditions and risk of prostate cancer: A Prisma-Compliant Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
- Hypertension and risk of prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
- Associations of the Charlson comorbidity index with asthma and mortality (NHANES 2007-2018): a cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Observational
- Use of Systemic Glucocorticoids and Risk of Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Evidence From a Danish Population-Based Case-Control Study.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- A mode of action protein based approach that characterizes the relationships among most major diseases.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cardiovascular events among patients with prostate cancer treated with abiraterone and enzalutamide.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2024Article
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- Atopic allergic conditions and prostate cancer risk and survival in the Multiethnic Cohort study.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Cancer incidence after asthma diagnosis: Evidence from a large clinical research network in the United States.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Allergies and Asthma in Relation to Cancer Risk.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2019Article
- The incidence, mortality, and risk factors of prostate cancer in Asian men.Prostate international · 2019Review
- Atopy and prostate cancer: Is there a link between circulating levels of IgE and PSA in humans?Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2017Article
- Asthma and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Insight into the Heterogeneity and Phenotypes of Asthma.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2017Review
- Atopy and Specific Cancer Sites: a Review of Epidemiological Studies.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Several epidemiologic studies in Western countries have examined the association between asthma and prostate cancer risk, but the results have been inconclusive. We investigated this association in a large, nationwide, population-based case-cohort study. Using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database from 1997 to 2008, we collected data from 12,372 men, including 4124 with asthma and 8248 age-, residence-, and insurance premium-matched control subjects, who were never diagnosed with asthma. Competing risk-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression was used to calculate the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for determining the association between prostate cancer and asthma. During a mean follow-up of 5.05 years (standard deviation, 2.10), there were 74 cases of prostate cancer. The incidence of prostate cancer was 163.0/100,000 person-years (95% CI: 113.0-228.0) in the asthma patients. Asthma was significantly associated with prostate cancer (HR: 2.36; 95% CI: 1.22-4.57; P = 0.011) after adjusting for age, residential area, insurance premium, hypertriglyceridemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, duration of hospitalization, and mortality. In the subgroup analysis, independent risk factors for prostate cancer among men with asthma were age (HR: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.05-1.21; P < 0.001) and hypertension (HR: 2.75; 95% CI: 1.24-7.80; P = 0.047). The results of our study suggest that men with asthma have an increased risk of prostate cancer.
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