Title: Analysis of risk factors for prostate cancer patients

Authors: Khaled S. Alqahtani; Shankar Srinivasan; Dinesh P. Mital; Syed Haque

Addresses: Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ 07107-3001, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ 07107-3001, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ 07107-3001, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ 07107-3001, USA

Abstract: This study tries to identify some of the key risk factors for those patients who are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. These risk factors include age, race/ethnicity, family history of prostate cancer, family history of any other type of cancer, obesity, smoking, alcohol abuse, cholesterol, vitamin D deficiency, inflammation of prostate, vasectomy, and hypertension. The study finds, age, race, positive family history of prostate cancer, a positive family history of any other type of cancer, hypercholesterolemia, vitamin D deficiency, inflammation of prostate, vasectomy, and hypertension are significantly associated with prostate cancer. However, obesity, alcohol abuse, and smoking show negative association with prostate cancer.

Keywords: risk factors; prostate cancer patients; age; race; family history; obesity; smoking; alcohol abuse; hypercholesterolemia; vitamin D deficiency; prostate inflammation; vasectomy; hypertension; ethnicity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2015.072322

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2015 Vol.7 No.4, pp.365 - 380

Received: 18 Aug 2014
Accepted: 21 Oct 2014

Published online: 09 Oct 2015 *

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