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Racial differences in prostate inflammation: results from the REDUCE study.

Adriana C Vidal¹, Zinan Chen², Lauren E Howard²

¹Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

|October 27, 2017

Summary

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Racial differences exist in acute prostate inflammation, a factor linked to lower prostate cancer risk. Asian men showed higher acute inflammation, potentially explaining some prostate cancer disparities.

Keywords:

acute inflammation inflammation prostate biopsy prostate cancer race

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Area of Science:

Urology
Pathology
Epidemiology

Background:

Prostate cancer (PC) risk varies by race.
Previous research linked prostate inflammation in benign tissue to reduced future PC risk.
Racial variations in prostate tissue inflammation remain largely unexamined.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate racial differences in baseline acute and chronic prostate inflammation.
To explore the association between race and inflammation in benign prostate tissue.
To assess the potential contribution of inflammation disparities to PC race disparities.

Main Methods:

Analysis of baseline prostate biopsy data from 7,982 men in the REDUCE study.
Centralized pathology review to identify acute and chronic inflammation.
Logistic regression models to compare inflammation prevalence across racial groups, adjusting for confounders.

Main Results:

No significant racial differences were observed in chronic prostate inflammation.
Black men showed a trend towards less acute inflammation compared to white men (OR=0.65, p=0.07).
Asian men exhibited significantly higher acute inflammation (OR=1.74, p=0.001) compared to white men.

Conclusions:

Racial disparities exist in acute inflammation within benign prostate tissue.
Observed differences in acute inflammation inversely correlate with population-level PC race disparities.
Prostatic acute inflammation may partially explain racial variations in prostate cancer risk, particularly for Asian men.