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Trend over time on knowledge of the health effects of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use in Bangladesh: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Bangladesh Surveys
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that increasing efforts of awareness policy interventions is having a positive effect on tobacco-related knowledge in Bangladesh. These policy initiatives should be continued to identify optimal methods to facilitate behaviour change and improve cessation of smoking and ST use.PMID:37565295 | DOI:10.1111/dar.13735
Source: Cancer Control - August 11, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Eva Naznin Johnson George Pete Driezen Kerrin Palazzi Olivia Wynne Nigar Nargis Geoffrey T Fong Billie Bonevski Source Type: research

Cancers, Vol. 15, Pages 3409: Research Attitude and Interest among Cancer Survivors with or without Cognitive Impairment
Conclusions: Participants with cancer and CI are open to research procedures and interventions that are traditionally less utilized, which may facilitate the discovery of the pathogenesis and interventions for cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI).
Source: Cancers - June 29, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ding Quan Ng Daniella Chan Munjal M. Acharya Joshua D. Grill Alexandre Chan Tags: Article Source Type: research

Alcohol consumption and risks of more than 200 diseases in Chinese men
Nat Med. 2023 Jun 8. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02383-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlcohol consumption accounts for ~3 million annual deaths worldwide, but uncertainty persists about its relationships with many diseases. We investigated the associations of alcohol consumption with 207 diseases in the 12-year China Kadoorie Biobank of >512,000 adults (41% men), including 168,050 genotyped for ALDH2- rs671 and ADH1B- rs1229984 , with >1.1 million ICD-10 coded hospitalized events. At baseline, 33% of men drank alcohol regularly. Among men, alcohol intake was positively associated with 61 diseases, including 33 not defi...
Source: Cancer Control - June 8, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Pek Kei Im Neil Wright Ling Yang Ka Hung Chan Yiping Chen Yu Guo Huaidong Du Xiaoming Yang Daniel Avery Shaojie Wang Canqing Yu Jun Lv Robert Clarke Junshi Chen Rory Collins Robin G Walters Richard Peto Liming Li Zhengming Chen Iona Y Millwood China Kadoo Source Type: research

Dietary diversity and risk of late-life disabling dementia in middle-aged and older adults
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that eating a variety of foods may prevent disabling dementia only among women. Thus, the habit of consuming a variety of food items has important public health implications for women.PMID:36863290 | DOI:10.1016/j.clnu.2023.02.002
Source: Cancer Control - March 2, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Rei Otsuka Shu Zhang Hikaru Ihira Norie Sawada Manami Inoue Kazumasa Yamagishi Nobufumi Yasuda Shoichiro Tsugane Source Type: research

Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy at age 30 years in the Chinese population: an observational study
Lancet Public Health. 2022 Aug 1:S2468-2667(22)00110-4. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00110-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The improvement of life expectancy is one of the aims of the Healthy China 2030 blueprint. We aimed to investigate the extent to which healthy lifestyles are associated with life expectancy in Chinese adults.METHODS: We used the prospective China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study to examine the relative risk of mortality associated with individual and combined lifestyle factors (never smoking or quitting not for illness, no excessive alcohol use, being physically active, healthy eating habits, an...
Source: Cancer Control - August 4, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Qiufen Sun Dongmei Yu Junning Fan Canqing Yu Yu Guo Pei Pei Ling Yang Yiping Chen Huaidong Du Xiaoming Yang Sam Sansome Yongming Wang Wenhua Zhao Junshi Chen Zhengming Chen Liyun Zhao Jun Lv Liming Li China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group Source Type: research

Prevalence and predictors of hypertension: Evidence from a study of rural India
CONCLUSION: Prevalence of hypertension in the rural population was high and most of the observed predictors were modifiable.PMID:35495805 | PMC:PMC9051678 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_967_21
Source: Cancer Control - May 2, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: None Vijna Chandra Pati Mishra Source Type: research

Pre-diagnostic biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation and cancer mortality.
CONCLUSIONS: Leptin is involved in long-term regulation of energy balance, while resistin is involved in chronic inflammation and LDL production. These findings highlight the biological mechanisms linking metabolic dysregulation with cancer mortality, and the influence of resistin on cancer mortality only among Blacks suggests that this hormone may be a useful biomarker of racial differences in cancer mortality that deserves further study. IMPACT: Our observed increased risk of cancer mortality associated with higher serum resistin levels among Blacks suggests that if validated in larger cohorts, clinical strategies fo...
Source: Oncotarget - April 19, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Oncotarget Source Type: research

Lifestyle factors and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in UK Biobank: Implications for epidemiological research
Conclusions A variety of sociodemographic, lifestyle and health-related characteristics are associated with PSA testing, suggesting that observed associations of some of these traits with risk for prostate cancer in epidemiological studies may be, at least partially, due to detection bias.
Source: Cancer Epidemiology - September 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

A Prospective Study of Dietary patterns and Cancer mortality among Blacks and Whites in the REGARDS cohort
This study aims to assess whether dietary patterns are associated with cancer mortality overall and by race. We identified 22,041 participants from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. Dietary patterns were categorized into: Convenience (Chinese and Mexican foods, pasta, pizza), Plant‐based (fruits, vegetables), Southern (added fats, fried foods, sugar‐sweetened beverages), Sweets/Fats (sugary foods) and Alcohol/Salads (alcohol, green‐leafy vegetables, salad dressing). Using Cox regression, we examined the association between quartiles of dietary patterns and cancer mortality,...
Source: International Journal of Cancer - July 25, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tomi Akinyemiju, Justin Xavier Moore, Maria Pisu, Susan G. Lakoski, James Shikany, Michael Goodman, Suzanne E. Judd Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study.
CONCLUSION: In this large prospective study, the habitual consumption of spicy foods was inversely associated with total and certain cause specific mortality, independent of other risk factors of death. PMID: 26242395 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Cancer Control - October 26, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Lv J, Qi L, Yu C, Yang L, Guo Y, Chen Y, Bian Z, Sun D, Du J, Ge P, Tang Z, Hou W, Li Y, Chen J, Chen Z, Li L, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group Tags: BMJ Source Type: research

Abstract SY02-03: Mediators of the effect of overweight and obesity on cardiovascular disease and cancer: Evidence from pooling of prospective studies
ConclusionControlling diabetes may reduce the harmful effect of obesity on cancer. Recent advances in causal inference and mediation analysis can be readily applied to estimate the direct and mediated effects of lifestyle and metabolic risk factors on cancer.Citation Format: Goodarz Danaei. Mediators of the effect of overweight and obesity on cardiovascular disease and cancer: Evidence from pooling of prospective studies. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr...
Source: Cancer Research - August 2, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Danaei, G. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Treatment and survival of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis associated hepatocellular carcinoma
Background: The incidence of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is increasing worldwide and a poorly defined subset of patients develops end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Differences in the biological behaviour, tumour characteristics, associated risk factors, treatment outcomes and overall survival of patients with NASH-HCC remain poorly defined. The aim of this study was to determine and analyze these differences in a large clinical cohort to guide treatment decisions. Methods: 1119 patients with HCC treated in an 11 year period at the University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg Unive...
Source: BMC Cancer - April 1, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Arndt WeinmannYvonne AltSandra KochCarina NellesChristoph DüberHauke LangGerd OttoTim ZimmermannJens MarquardtPeter GalleMarcus WörnsJörn Schattenberg Source Type: research