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Risk factors for prostate cancer: a case‐control study in Greece
Author(s) -
Hsieh C.c.,
Thanos A.,
Mitropoulos D.,
Deliveliotis Ch.,
Mantzoros C.S.,
Trichopoulos D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19990301)80:5<699::aid-ijc12>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - medicine , offspring , family history , body mass index , risk factor , epidemiology , diabetes mellitus , disease , prostate cancer , case control study , prostate , cancer , pediatrics , gynecology , demography , surgery , pregnancy , endocrinology , genetics , sociology , biology
A case‐control study of prostate cancer (PC) was undertaken in Athens, Greece. Cases were 320 patients with histologically confirmed incident disease, whereas controls were 246 patients without history or symptomatology of benign prostatic hyperplasia, treated in the same hospitals as the cases for minor diseases or conditions. Cases and controls had similar distributions with respect to height, body mass index, sibship size and birth order in the parental family, marital status and number of offspring in the subject's own family and a long series of previous surgical operations and medical diagnoses, including diabetes mellitus, hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases. There was also no evidence for a positive association between vertex baldness, tobacco smoking and drinking of coffee or alcoholic beverages, on the one hand, and PC, on the other. There was evidence, however, that some aspect of urban life may increase the risk for PC and a suggestion that sexual activity in early adulthood may be inversely associated with this risk. Int. J. Cancer80:699–703, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.