Journal article
Investigating the prostate specific antigen, body mass index and age relationship: is an age-BMI-adjusted PSA model clinically useful?
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Purpose
Previous studies indicate a possible inverse relationship between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and body mass index (BMI), and a positive relationship between PSA and age. We investigated the associations between age, BMI, PSA, and screen-detected prostate cancer to determine whether an age–BMI-adjusted PSA model would be clinically useful for detecting prostate cancer.
Methods
Cross-sectional analysis nested within the UK ProtecT trial of treatments for...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
Funding
National Cancer Research Institute
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National Institute for Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Cancer Causes & Control Journal website
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 1465-1474
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-7225
- ISSN:
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0957-5243
- Pmid:
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27830401
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:659991
- UUID:
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uuid:8ca4bfbf-056e-4182-8f9d-d42c0071043c
- Local pid:
- pubs:659991
- Source identifiers:
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659991
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-31
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Hamdy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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