Lung cancer health disparities

BM Ryan - Carcinogenesis, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Compared with all other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, African Americans are
disproportionally affected by lung cancer, both in terms of incidence and survival. It is likely …

Abdominal obesity and lung cancer risk: systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

K Hidayat, X Du, G Chen, M Shi, B Shi - Nutrients, 2016 - mdpi.com
Several meta-analyses of observational studies have been performed to examine the
association between general obesity, as measured by body mass index (BMI), and lung …

Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization

W Zhou, G Liu, RJ Hung, PC Haycock… - … journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
At the time of cancer diagnosis, body mass index (BMI) is inversely correlated with lung
cancer risk, which may reflect reverse causality and confounding due to smoking behavior …

Overall and central obesity and risk of lung cancer: a pooled analysis

D Yu, W Zheng, M Johansson, Q Lan… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The obesity–lung cancer association remains controversial. Concerns over
confounding by smoking and reverse causation persist. The influence of obesity type and …

Pre-disease and pre-surgery BMI, weight loss and sarcopenia impact survival of resected lung cancer independently of tumor stage

P Icard, O Schussler, M Loi, A Bobbio, A Mansuet Lupo… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lower pre-surgery Body Mass Index (BMI) and low muscle mass impact negatively long-
term survival of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We investigated their influence on …

The obesity paradox in lung cancer: associations with body size versus body shape

FH Ardesch, R Ruiter, M Mulder, L Lahousse… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background The association between obesity and lung cancer (LC) remains poorly
understood. However, other indices of obesity on the basis of body shape instead of body …

Body mass index and lung cancer risk: Pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies in Japan

S Kawai, Y Lin, H Tsuge, H Ito, K Matsuo… - Cancer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mounting evidence suggests that body mass index (BMI) is inversely associated with the risk
of lung cancer. However, relatively few studies have explored this association in Asian …

Metabolic syndrome and risk of lung cancer: an analysis of Korean National Health Insurance Corporation Database

S Sin, CH Lee, SM Choi, KD Han… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Metabolic syndrome is known to increase the risk of several cancers. However,
the association between lung cancer and metabolic syndrome remains unclear. Thus, we …

Predicted lean body mass, fat mass and risk of lung cancer: prospective US cohort study

SM Jeong, DH Lee, EL Giovannucci - European journal of epidemiology, 2019 - Springer
An inverse association between body mass index (BMI) and risk of lung cancer has been
reported. However, the association of body composition such as fat mass (FM) and lean …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin and lung cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

CH Tseng - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This study evaluated whether metformin might reduce lung cancer risk. The reimbursement
database of the Taiwan's National Health Insurance was used. A sample of 15414 never …