AIM: Prior studies have reported that diabetes mellitus might reduce the overall prostate cancer risk.
We examined this association by conducting a detailed meta-analysis of the studies published in peer-reviewed literature on the association between diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer risk of different stage or grade.
METHODS: A comprehensive search for articles of MEDLINE and EMBASE databases and bibliographies of retrieved articles published up to October 23, 2012 was performed. Methodological quality assessment of the trials was based on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Meta-analysis was performed using STATA 12.0.
RESULTS: We included 9 studies in the meta-analysis (5 studies examining the relation of different stage only, 2 studies for grade only, and 2 studies for both grade and stage), and found an inverse association between diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer of different stage or grade. The relative risk (RRs) was moderately stronger for low grade (RR 0.74, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.64-0.86) and localized disease (RR 0.72, 95% CI 0.67-0.76) compared with high grade (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.67-0.90) and advanced disease (RR 0.85, 95% CI 0.75-0.97).
CONCLUSION: This study suggests an inverse relationship between diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer of different stage or grade. Possible biases underlying this association are discussed.
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Xu H, Jiang HW, Ding GX, Zhang H, Zhang LM, Mao SH, Ding Q. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China.
Reference: Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2013 Jan 5. pii: S0168-8227(12)00501-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2012.12.003
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23298664
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