Prostate cancer, prostate cancer death, and death from other causes, among men with metabolic aberrations

Christel Häggström1, Tanja Stocks, Gabriele Nagel

  • 1aDepartment of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; bDepartment of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic Epidemiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; cInstitute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany; dAgency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Austria; eDepartment of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; fDepartment of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; gNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo/Bergen, Norway; hDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; iDepartment of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; jInstitute of Population-based Cancer Research, The Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway; and kDepartment of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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