Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Kidney Cancer Risk: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of the National Health Insurance.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the association between incidence of any kidney cancer and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods

A random sample of 1,000,000 subjects covered by the National Health Insurance was recruited. A total of 998728 people (115655 diabetes and 883073 non-diabetes) without kidney cancer at recruitment were followed from 2003 to 2005. The cumulative incidence of kidney cancer from 2003 to 2005 in diabetic patients and non-diabetic people in all ages and in age <40, 40-64, 65-74 and ≥ 75 years were calculated in the diabetic patients and the non-diabetic people, respectively. Logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios comparing diabetic patients to non-diabetic people in the respective age groups. Multivariable-adjusted odds ratios for kidney cancer with

SUBMITTER: Tseng CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4641625 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature