ArticleSouth African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde2019
Prevalence of comorbidities in women with and without breast cancer in Soweto, South Africa: Results from the SABC study.
Article in South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Breast cancer in women by HIV status: A report from the South African National Cancer Registry.PloS one · 2024Article
- Perspectives on common chronic diseases in adult cancer patients in South Africa.Global health action · 2023Article
- Metabolic syndrome and breast cancer risk.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2023Article
- Assessment of Serum Uric Acid, Urea, and Glucose Levels and Associated Factors among Breast Cancer Patients Attending A Tertiary Hospital in Bahirdar, Ethiopia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2022Article
- Adherence to cancer prevention recommendations is associated with a lower breast cancer risk in black urban South African women.The British journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Prevalence of multimorbidity in men of African descent with and without prostate cancer in Soweto, South Africa.PloS one · 2022Article
- Dietary Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk in Black Urban South African Women: The SABC Study.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Reproductive factors and risk of breast cancer in black South African women.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2021Article
- Burden of chronic disease comorbidities among cancer patients at Queen Elizabeth and Kamuzu Central Hospitals in Malawi: an exploratory cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
- The multimorbidity profile of South African women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.International journal of cancer · 2020Article
- Investigation of the association between metabolic syndrome and breast cancer patients.European journal of translational myology · 2020Article
- Breast cancer in low-middle income countries: abnormality in splicing and lack of targeted treatment options.American journal of cancer research · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundComorbidities occurring concurrently in breast cancer patients can be burdensome, as they may negatively influence time and stage of presentation.
objectivesTo describe the comorbid health conditions among South African (SA) black women with and without breast cancer and to determine factors associated with advanced-stage presentation of breast cancer.
methodsA population-based case-control study on breast cancer was conducted in black women in Soweto, SA, the SABC (South Africa Breast Cancer) study. Lifestyle information and blood samples were collected from 399 women with histologically confirmed new cases of invasive primary breast cancer, recruited prior to any therapy, and 399 age- and neighbourhood-matched controls without breast cancer. We compared self-reported metabolic diseases, depression, anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, HIV status and point-of-care lipid and glucose levels between patients with breast cancer and the control group.
resultsIn the whole population, the mean (standard deviation) age was 54.6 (12.9) years, the majority (81.2%) of the participants were overweight or obese, 85.3% had abdominal adiposity, 61.3% were hypertensive, 47.1% had impaired fasting plasma glucose, 8.4% had elevated total cholesterol, 74.8% had low high-density lipoprotein and 10.9% were assessed to be depressed. Ninety-one percent of the whole cohort had at least one metabolic disease. In the breast cancer group, 72.2% had one or more metabolic diseases only (HIV-negative and no evidence of depression), compared with 64.7% of the control group. From a multivariate logistic regression adjusted model, higher household socioeconomic status conferred a 19% reduction in the odds of having advanced-stage breast cancer at diagnosis, while hypertension, dyslipidaemia and HIV were not significantly associated with stage at breast cancer diagnosis in the adjusted model.
conclusionsA large proportion of women experience several comorbidities, highlighting the need to address the chronic non-communicable disease epidemic in SA and to co-ordinate multidisciplinary primary-, secondary- and tertiary-level care in the country's complex healthcare system for better outcome.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.