Effect of ageing and body mass index on prostate‐specific antigen levels among Chinese men in Singapore from a community‐based study

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of ageing and body mass index (BMI) on prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) among Chinese men from the results of the 2005 Prostate Awareness Week in Singapore. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In all, 2714 men participated in the programme, consisting of 2431 Chinese, 114 Malays, 117...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BJU international 2009-06, Vol.103 (11), p.1487-1491
Hauptverfasser:	Chia, Sin‐Eng, Lau, Weber K.O., Chin, Chong Min, Tan, James, Ho, Siew Hong, Lee, June, Cheng, Christopher
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Factors Aged Biological and medical sciences Body Mass Index China - ethnology Chinese Early Detection of Cancer Epidemiologic Methods Humans Male Medical sciences Metabolic diseases Middle Aged Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Obesity Obesity - complications Prostate-Specific Antigen - blood prostate‐specific antigen Prostatic Neoplasms - complications Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis Prostatic Neoplasms - ethnology Risk Factors Singapore - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of ageing and body mass index (BMI) on prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) among Chinese men from the results of the 2005 Prostate Awareness Week in Singapore. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In all, 2714 men participated in the programme, consisting of 2431 Chinese, 114 Malays, 117 Indians and 52 ‘others’. Of these, 2410 Chinese men who had a PSA level of 50 years but
ISSN:	1464-4096 1464-410X
DOI:	10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.08246.x