For NHANES III, of 16274 nonpregnant adults aged 20 years or older, we excluded 588 participants with incomplete data on first - day 24 - hour dietary recall; 1321 who reported a history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or congestive heart failure; 996 who had diagnosed diabetes mellitus or were taking diabetes medications; and 452 who had
cancer at baseline.
A history of cancer was termed
any cancer at baseline.
Cox Proportional Hazard Ratios (HR) for Sensitivity Analysis Excluding Participants With Physician - Diagnosed CVD or
Cancer at Baseline
Participants were excluded if they reported a personal history of
cancer at baseline of the follow - up in order to avoid bias due to closer physician follow - up of cancer patients.
«Our study was designed to quantify the level of variation within each patient's
cancer at baseline, prior to receiving any treatment.»
Not exact matches
The research team conducted a randomized blinded trial of intercessory prayer added to normal
cancer treatment with participants agreeing to complete quality of life (QOL) and spiritual well - being scales
at baseline and 6 months later.
In this study, the authors investigated the associations between various body measurements
at baseline, mainly BMI and waist circumference, and the risk of prostate
cancer incidence, with a focus on tumour stage and grade, and on mortality from prostate
cancer.
As the ACA was implemented in late 2013, the researchers used the first nine months of 2013 as a
baseline and compared trends in
cancer stage
at diagnosis in this period to those in the last nine months of 2014.
Many lung
cancer trials have traditionally excluded patients with brain metastases
at baseline, expecting that the presence of metastases would create negative results that could in turn create the appearance of drug failure.
Participants with coronary heart disease
at baseline were excluded, as were participants with
cancer, stroke and coronary artery surgery.
After excluding patients with liver
cancer before the follow ‐ up index dates, 1,553 patients who had continuously received daily aspirin for
at least 90 days were randomly matched 1:4 with 6,212 patients who had never received anti platelet therapy by means of propensity scores consisting of
baseline characteristics, the index date and nucleos (t) ide analogue (NA) use during follow ‐ up.
The research team found a 24 percent increase in the risk of developing
cancer among participants with severe periodontitis, compared to those with mild to no periodontitis
at baseline.
An 80 percent increase in risk of colon
cancer observed for participants who were edentulous
at baseline, which is consistent with prior findings, and among never smokers, a two-fold higher risk was noted for participants with severe periodontitis, compared to those who had no / mild periodontitis.
Instead, they found that taking selenium supplements increased the risk of high - grade
cancer by 91 percent among men with high selenium status
at baseline.
The study also found that only a subgroup of men was
at increased risk of prostate
cancer from taking vitamin E. Among men with low selenium status
at baseline, vitamin E supplementation increased their total risk of prostate
cancer by 63 percent and increased the risk of high - grade
cancer by 111 percent.
Breast
cancer survivors had
baseline neuropsychological evaluations within three months after primary treatments (n = 190),
at six months (n = 173),
at one year (n = 173) and
at an average of 4.8 years after treatment (n = 102).
Furthermore, in a study of men age 60 years whose serum was stored and later assayed for PSA, there was a 0.5 % risk of developing metastatic disease and a 0.2 % risk of prostate
cancer death
at 25 years after a
baseline PSA level of 1.0 ng / ml.99
We repeated the analyses in those who were free of CVD,
cancer, and diabetes
at baseline (1084 women with 56 inflammatory - related deaths and 843 men with 58 inflammatory - related deaths).
Although we can not preclude reverse causality, when we excluded those who had conditions
at baseline that are commonly influenced by lifestyle modifications (eg, CVD,
cancer, or diabetes), we obtained similar findings.
This article reviewed the state of the evidence and, based on the prospective longitudinal studies, concluded that «men who develop prostate
cancer do not have higher
baseline testosterone levels and men with higher testosterone levels are
at no greater risk for developing prostate
cancer than men with lower testosterone levels.»
Written by Jon Barron or staff member
at The
Baseline of Health Foundation Is
Cancer Just a Crapshoot?
Among participants who returned
baseline questionnaires, we excluded those who had a history of
cancer (except nonmelanoma skin
cancer), CVD, or diabetes
at baseline, left more than 10 items blank on the
baseline FFQ in the NHS and more than 70 items blank in the HPFS, or reported implausible energy intake levels (< 500 or > 3500 kcal / d for women, or < 800 or > 4200 kcal / d for men).
Because lung naires within 1 month of treatment initiation (
baseline) and
cancer patients often suffer from physical and psychiatric
at 6 - month follow - up.
BSA patients used potentially maladaptive coping strategies more frequently than BW patients
at baseline (hopelessness / helplessness p = 0.005, fatalism p = 0.0005, avoidance p = 0.005; the CIDQ denial statement «I do not really believe I have
cancer» p = 0.0005).
Cancer - specific stress
at baseline was examined as a predictor of psychological (cognitive - affective depressive symptoms, negative mood, mental health quality of life) and physical functioning (fatigue interference, sleep problems, physical health quality of life), controlling for demographic and treatment variables.