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Moderate physical activity and prostate cancer risk: A case?control study in china

Author(s) -

Le Jian,

Zhou Shen,

Andy H. Lee,

Colin Binns

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.825

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1573-7284

pISSN - 0393-2990

DOI - 10.1007/s10654-004-3007-7

Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , odds ratio , quartile , confidence interval , metabolic equivalent , logistic regression , case control study , cancer , prostate , oncology , gynecology , physical activity , physical therapy

A case-control study was conducted to investigate the association between physical activity and prostate cancer risk in China. A total of 130 recent histopathologically confirmed cancer cases and 274 controls were interviewed. Information collected included type, intensity and duration of various physical activities. The adjusted odds ratios of prostate cancer risk for physical activity variables were obtained from multivariate logistic regression models. Results showed that moderate physical activity was inversely related to the prostate cancer risk, with adjusted odds ratio being 0.20 (95% confidence interval 0.07-0.62) for the upper vs. the lower quartiles of weekly metabolic equivalent task-hours. The dose-response relationship was also significant (p = 0.015). The findings suggest that moderate physical activity may be protective against prostate cancer for Chinese men.

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