Post-diagnosis body mass index and mortality among women diagnosed with endometrial cancer: Results from the Women's Health Initiative

Higher body mass index (BMI) measured before endometrial cancer diagnosis has been associated with greater risk of developing endometrial cancer and higher mortality, but the association between BMI measured after diagnosis and mortality risk is unclear. We identified 467 women (91 deaths) in the Wo...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2017-02, Vol.12 (2), p.e0171250-e0171250
Hauptverfasser: Arem, Hannah, Pfeiffer, Ruth M, Moore, Steven C, Irwin, Melinda L, LaMonte, Michael J, Sarto, Gloria E, Nassir, Rami, Luo, Juhua, Chlebowski, Rowan T, Brinton, Louise A, Matthews, Charles E
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Zusammenfassung:Higher body mass index (BMI) measured before endometrial cancer diagnosis has been associated with greater risk of developing endometrial cancer and higher mortality, but the association between BMI measured after diagnosis and mortality risk is unclear. We identified 467 women (91 deaths) in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) with information on BMI measured after diagnosis and used Cox proportional hazards regression to generate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for all-cause mortality. Comparing BMI 35+ with
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0171250