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ArticleCancers2023

Association of Metabolic Syndrome with the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: A 10-Year Follow-Up Study of 10 Million Initially Healthy Individuals.

Geun-Jeon Kim, Kyung-Do Han, Young-Hoon Joo

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. A review on diabetes and oral cancer: Molecular links and implications.Molecular biology research communications · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geun-Jeon KimDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
Kyung-Do HanDepartment of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
Young-Hoon JooDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1158-0974
Catholic University of Korea · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this national population-based retrospective study was to analyze the relationship between MetS and the incidence of HNC. In this Korean population-based cohort study, 9,598,085 subjects above the age of 20 were monitored from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2018. In the study population, a total of 10,732 individuals were newly diagnosed with HNC during the 10-year follow-up. The hazard ratio (HR), after adjusting for age, gender, smoking status, alcohol intake, and exercise, indicated that participants with MetS were at a 1.06-fold (95% CI: 1.01-1.10) higher risk of having HNC than those without MetS. Participants with MetS showed an increased risk of developing oral cavity cancer (HR, 1.12; 95% CI, 1.03-1.23) and laryngeal cancer (HR, 1.18; 95% CI, 1.09-1.27). Among the components of MetS, elevated fasting glucose (HR = 1.04, 95% CI: 1.00-1.08) and elevated blood pressure (HR = 1.08, 95% CI: 1.04-1.13) were significantly associated with an increased HR for HNC in an adjusted multivariable model. The association between HNC and MetS remained significant even among individuals who had never smoked or were ex-smokers (HR: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.04-1.15), as well as those who did not drink or were mild drinkers (HR: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.02-1.12). The findings of this cohort study suggest MetS was associated with an increased risk for some types of HNCs. The results of this study could assist with etiological investigations and prevention strategies.

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epidemiologyhead and neck neoplasmsmetabolic syndromeRepublic of Koreasmoking

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PMCPMC10452383
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