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Type-II diabetes and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of 36 studies

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Cancer, May 2005
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Title
Type-II diabetes and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of 36 studies
Published in
British Journal of Cancer, May 2005
DOI 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602619
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Authors

R Huxley, A Ansary-Moghaddam, A Berrington de González, F Barzi, M Woodward

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer is the eighth major form of cancer-related death worldwide, causing 227 000 deaths annually. Type-II diabetes is widely considered to be associated with pancreatic cancer, but whether this represents a causal or consequential association is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine this association. A computer-based literature search from 1966 to 2005 yielded 17 case-control and 19 cohort or nested case-control studies with information on 9220 individuals with pancreatic cancer. The age and sex-adjusted odds ratio (OR) for pancreatic cancer associated with type-II diabetes was obtained from each study. The combined summary odds ratio was 1.82 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.66-1.89), with evidence of heterogeneity across the studies (P=0.002 for case-control and P=0.05 for cohort studies) that was explained, in part, by higher risks being reported by smaller studies and studies that reported before 2000. Individuals in whom diabetes had only recently been diagnosed (< 4 years) had a 50% greater risk of the malignancy compared with individuals who had diabetes for > or =5 years (OR 2.1 vs 1.5; P=0.005). These results support a modest causal association between type-II diabetes and pancreatic cancer.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 410 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 400 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 64 16%
Student > Master 56 14%
Student > Bachelor 44 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 37 9%
Researcher 33 8%
Other 72 18%
Unknown 104 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 150 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 46 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 10%
Chemistry 9 2%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 2%
Other 34 8%
Unknown 124 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 October 2023.
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#620,450
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#1
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