Open AccessDiabetes, Body Mass Index, and Outcomes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation
Author(s) -
Abby B. Siegel,
Emerson A. Lim,
Shuang Wang,
William D. Brubaker,
Rosa Rodríguez,
Abhishek Goyal,
Judith S. Jacobson,
Dawn L. Hershman,
Elizabeth C. Verna,
Jonah Zaretsky,
Karim J. Halazun,
Lorna Dove,
Robert S. Brown,
Alfred I. Neugut,
Tomoaki Kato,
Helen Remotti,
Y. Coppleson,
Jean C. Emond
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e31825c58ea
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatocellular carcinoma , hazard ratio , body mass index , diabetes mellitus , proportional hazards model , liver transplantation , transplantation , retrospective cohort study , obesity , cancer , oncology , univariate analysis , confidence interval , multivariate analysis , endocrinology
For many cancers, features of the metabolic syndrome, such as diabetes and obesity, have been associated with both increased risk of cancer development and poor outcomes.