韓国男性と女性の断食時の血清糖値とがんリスク
Sun Ha Jee1, Heechoul Ohrr, Jae Woong Sull
1Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. jsunha@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
JAMA
|January 13, 2005
まとめ
高血糖値と糖尿病は,韓国のいくつかの主要な癌の独立リスク因子です. 高血糖レベルは,特に臓がんでは,がんのリスクの増加と相関しています.
科学分野:
- エンドクリノロジーと腫瘍学
- 流行病学と公衆衛生について
背景:
- 糖尿病は,深刻な経済的影響を及ぼす世界的な健康上の懸念が増大しています.
- 糖尿病とがんのリスクとの関連は,まだ完全に理解されていない.
研究 の 目的:
- 断食時の血糖値,糖尿病の診断,および様々な癌を発症するリスクとの関連を調査する.
- 韓国人男性と女性のグルコース値に関連した癌リスクを分析する.
主な方法:
- 30歳から95歳までの129万人以上の韓国人を対象とした10年間の前向きなコホート研究です.
- 1992年から1995年の間に2年に一度の医療評価から収集されたデータで,癌の発生率と死亡率をエンドポイントとして使用した.
- コックス比例リスクモデルを用いた統計分析,喫煙とアルコール摂取のコントロール.
主要な成果:
- 禁食時の血清糖値の上昇 (>または=140 mg/dL) は,男性と女性の両方ですべてのがんによる死亡率の増加と関連していました.
- 最も強い関連性は臓がんで観察され,高血糖を有する個体ではリスクが著しく高かった.
- また,食道,肝臓,結腸/直腸,子宮頸,胆管の癌にも重要な関連性が見られ,高血糖値でリスク傾向が増加することが観察されました.
結論:
- 高血糖と糖尿病の診断は,韓国人における複数の主要な癌の独立リスク因子です.
- 投与量反応関係が存在し,高血糖値ががんのリスクと一致する.
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