| Title: | Associations of physical frailty with incidence and mortality of overall and site-specific cancers: A prospective cohort study from UK biobank |
| Journal: | Preventive Medicine |
| Published: | 20 Oct 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37866694/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107742 |
Publication 9353
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Evidence regarding the role of physical frailty in cancer-related outcomes is limited. We aimed to examine the association of frailty with cancer incidence and mortality risk.</p>
METHODS: This prospective study included 348,144 participants free of cancer at baseline from the UK Biobank. Frailty phenotypes (non-frail, pre-frail, and frail) were constructed from 5 components: weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, slow gait speed, and low grip strength. The outcome was incidence and mortality of overall and cite-specific cancers. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to estimate the association of frailty phenotypes with cancer incidence and mortality risk.</p>
RESULTS: A total of 43,304 incident cancer cases and 10,152 cancer deaths were documented during a median of 12.0 years of follow-up. For overall cancer, compared with non-frailty, the incidence risk increased by 4% for pre-frailty and 11% for frailty, and the mortality risk increased by 11% for pre-frailty and 39% for frailty. Frailty phenotypes were also dose-dependently associated with a higher risk of incidence and mortality of some site-specific cancers (including liver and lung), with significant sex differences. We observed a synergetic association of frailty phenotypes and smoking with overall cancer incidence and mortality risk.</p>
CONCLUSIONS: Frailty phenotypes contributed significantly to a higher risk of overall and some site-specific cancers incidence and mortality in a stepwise manner or within individual categories. Future studies are warranted to emphasize the identification, management and prevention of frailty in the whole population and complements of lifestyle-targeted interventions such as quitting smoking.</p>
9 Authors
- Fubin Liu
- Yu Peng
- Peng Wang
- Yating Qiao
- Changyu Si
- Xixuan Wang
- Ming Zhang
- Liangkai Chen
- Fangfang Song
1 Application
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| 63454 | Understand the relationship between diet, lifestyle and gene-environment interactions and healthy aging |
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