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SUBMITTER: Kotani K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3775524 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kotani Kazuhiko K Sekine Yoshitaka Y Ishikawa Shizukiyo S Ikpot Imoh Z IZ Suzuki Kazuhiro K Remaley Alan T AT
Journal of epidemiology 20130827 5
Prostate cancer is a common disease in modern, developed societies and has a high incidence and mortality. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) has recently received much attention as a possible risk marker of prostate cancer development and prognosis. In the present article, we summarized findings from epidemiologic studies of the association between HDL-C and prostate cancer. Low HDL-C level was found to be a risk and prognostic factor of prostate cancer in several epidemiologic studie ...[more]