Retrospective analysis of birth weight and prostate cancer in the health professionals follow-up study

Elizabith A. Platz; Edward Giovannucci; Eric B. Rimm; Gary C. Curhan; Donna Spiegelman; Graham A. Colditz; Walter C. Willet

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009412

Retrospective analysis of birth weight and prostate cancer in the health professionals follow-up study

Elizabith A. Platz, Edward Giovannucci, Eric B. Rimm, Gary C. Curhan, Donna Spiegelman, Graham A. Colditz, Walter C. Willet

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

The authors retrospectively evaluated the relation between birth weight and prostate cancer (1986-1994) among 21,140 men of the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported in 1994 their weight at birth. No relation between birth weight and prostate cancer (n = 545) was observed in multivariate logistic models. For high stage/grade tumors (n = 213), compared with birth weights <7.0 lbs (<3,175 g), the relative risks were 1.20 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.79-1.83) for 8.5-9.9 lbs (3,855.6-4,490.6 g) and 1.30 (95% CI 0.80-2.10) for ≤10 lbs (≤4,536 g). These findings do not support an overall association between birth weight and prostate cancer incidence, but the possibility of a modest positive association between birth weight and high stage/grade prostatic cancer cannot be excluded.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1140-1144
Number of pages	5
Journal	American journal of epidemiology
Volume	147
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009412
State	Published - Jun 15 1998

Keywords

Birth weight
Cohort studies
Prostatic neoplasms

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Epidemiology

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Retrospective analysis of birth weight and prostate cancer in the health professionals follow-up study. / Platz, Elizabith A.; Giovannucci, Edward; Rimm, Eric B.; Curhan, Gary C.; Spiegelman, Donna; Colditz, Graham A.; Willet, Walter C.

In: American journal of epidemiology, Vol. 147, No. 12, 15.06.1998, p. 1140-1144.

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