ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2022
Healthy lifestyle index and risk of pancreatic cancer in the Women's Health Initiative.
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- Alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk: An analysis from 30 prospective studies across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Lifestyle-Related Risk Factors for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Longitudinal Analysis of 1,120,377 Individuals From the NHISS Cohort.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- Exploring the Relationships between Lifestyle Patterns and Epigenetic Biological Age Measures in Men.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- On the use of the healthy lifestyle index to investigate specific disease outcomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pancreatic cancer in Saudi Arabia (2005-2020): increasing trend.BMC cancer · 2024Article
- Childhood and adulthood passive and active smoking, and the ABO group as risk factors for pancreatic cancer in women.United European gastroenterology journal · 2024Article
- Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.European journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Association Between the Healthy Lifestyle Index and Risk of Multimorbidity in the Women's Health Initiative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Article
- Incidence and risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with acute or chronic pancreatitis: a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Healthy Lifestyle Index and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Postmenopausal Women With Normal Body Mass Index.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
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purposeLifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol, body weight, physical activity, and diet quality have been associated with the risk of pancreatic cancer. However, studies of their combined association in women are limited.
methodsData on smoking habits, alcohol intake, diet composition, recreational physical activity, body weight, and waist circumference, obtained at recruitment for 136,945 postmenopausal women (aged 50-79 years) participating in the Women's Health Initiative study, were categorized separately, with higher scores for each variable assigned to the categories representing healthier behaviors. The combined healthy lifestyle index (HLI) score, created by summing the scores for each risk factor, was grouped into quartiles. We used multivariable-adjusted Cox regression to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for pancreatic cancer risk in association with the HLI.
resultsOver an average follow-up period of approximately 16.0 years, 1,119 incident cases of pancreatic cancer were ascertained. Compared to women in the lowest HLI quartile, those in the upper quartiles (qt) had a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer (multivariable-adjusted HRqt
conclusionsOur findings suggest that in postmenopausal women, a healthy lifestyle is associated with reduced risk of pancreatic cancer.
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