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Household physical activity and cancer risk: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Risk factors for breast cancer: an umbrella review of observational cohort studies and causal relationship analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Physical activity participation and the risk of chronic diseases among South Asian adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Pooled it
- Leisure time physical activity and dementia risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.BMJ open · 2017Pooled it
- A prospective study of physical activity and cardiometabolic diseases in association with cancer risk.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- The role of depression in the progression of tumor cell inflammation and the potential regulatory mechanisms of aerobic exercise: a narrative review from molecular and cellular perspectives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Participation in Household Physical Activity Lowers Mortality Risk in Chinese Women and Men.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Association between physical activity and cancer risk among Chinese adults: a 10-year prospective study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- Relationship of leisure-time and household physical activity level and type with cardiovascular disease: secondary analysis of the Takashima Study data.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- Predictors of CRC Stage at Diagnosis among Male and Female Adults Participating in a Prospective Cohort Study: Findings from Alberta's Tomorrow Project.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Article
- A Physically Active Status Affects the Circulating Profile of Cancer-Associated miRNAs.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Role of physical activity and fitness on sleep in sedentary middle-aged adults: the FIT-AGEING study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Patterns of leisure time and household physical activity and the risk of mortality among middle-aged Korean adults.PloS one · 2020Article
- Common risk factors for major noncommunicable disease, a systematic overview of reviews and commentary: the implied potential for targeted risk reduction.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2019Review
- Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, diet, and cancer: an update and emerging new evidence.The Lancet. Oncology · 2017Review
- Cancer-related health behaviours of young people not in education, employment or training ('NEET'): a cross-sectional study.BMC cancer · 2017Article
- Physical activity domains and risk of gastric adenocarcinoma in the MCC-Spain case-control study.PloS one · 2017Article
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the MPAM-R to Brazilian Portuguese and Proposal of a New Method to Calculate Factor Scores.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Controversial results of the association between household physical activity and cancer risk were reported among previous epidemiological studies. We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship of household physical activity and cancer risk quantitatively, especially in dose-response manner. PubMed, Embase, Web of science and the Cochrane Library were searched for cohort or case-control studies that examined the association between household physical activity and cancer risks. Random-effect models were conducted to estimate the summary relative risks (RRs), nonlinear or linear dose-response meta-analyses were performed to estimate the trend from the correlated log RR estimates across levels of household physical activity quantitatively. Totally, 30 studies including 41 comparisons met the inclusion criteria. Total cancer risks were reduced 16% among the people with highest household physical activity compared to those with lowest household physical activity (RR = 0.84, 95% CI = 0.76-0.93). The dose-response analyses indicated an inverse linear association between household physical activity and cancer risk. The relative risk was 0.98 (95% CI = 0.97-1.00) for per additional 10 MET-hours/week and it was 0.99 (95% CI = 0.98-0.99) for per 1 hour/week increase. These findings provide quantitative data supporting household physical activity is associated with decreased cancer risk in dose-response effect.
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