A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status

BACKGROUND: Comorbidity and socioeconomic status (SES) may be related among cancer patients. METHOD: Population-based cancer registry study among 72 153 patients diagnosed during 1997–2006. RESULTS: Low SES patients had 50% higher risk of serious comorbidity than those with high SES. Prevalence was...

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Autores principales: Louwman, W J, Aarts, M J, Houterman, S, van Lenthe, F J, Coebergh, J W W, Janssen-Heijnen, M L G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2010
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20978508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605949
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author Louwman, W J
Aarts, M J
Houterman, S
van Lenthe, F J
Coebergh, J W W
Janssen-Heijnen, M L G
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Aarts, M J
Houterman, S
van Lenthe, F J
Coebergh, J W W
Janssen-Heijnen, M L G
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description BACKGROUND: Comorbidity and socioeconomic status (SES) may be related among cancer patients. METHOD: Population-based cancer registry study among 72 153 patients diagnosed during 1997–2006. RESULTS: Low SES patients had 50% higher risk of serious comorbidity than those with high SES. Prevalence was increased for each cancer site. Low SES cancer patients had significantly higher risk of also having cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, tuberculosis, dementia, and gastrointestinal disease. One-year survival was significantly worse in lowest vs highest SES, partly explained by comorbidity. CONCLUSION: This illustrates the enormous heterogeneity of cancer patients and stresses the need for optimal treatment of cancer patients with a variety of concomitant chronic conditions.
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spelling pubmed-29942212011-11-01 A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status Louwman, W J Aarts, M J Houterman, S van Lenthe, F J Coebergh, J W W Janssen-Heijnen, M L G Br J Cancer Epidemiology BACKGROUND: Comorbidity and socioeconomic status (SES) may be related among cancer patients. METHOD: Population-based cancer registry study among 72 153 patients diagnosed during 1997–2006. RESULTS: Low SES patients had 50% higher risk of serious comorbidity than those with high SES. Prevalence was increased for each cancer site. Low SES cancer patients had significantly higher risk of also having cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, tuberculosis, dementia, and gastrointestinal disease. One-year survival was significantly worse in lowest vs highest SES, partly explained by comorbidity. CONCLUSION: This illustrates the enormous heterogeneity of cancer patients and stresses the need for optimal treatment of cancer patients with a variety of concomitant chronic conditions. Nature Publishing Group 2010-11 2010-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2994221/ /pubmed/20978508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605949 Text en Copyright © 2010 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Louwman, W J
Aarts, M J
Houterman, S
van Lenthe, F J
Coebergh, J W W
Janssen-Heijnen, M L G
A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title_full A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title_fullStr A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title_full_unstemmed A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title_short A 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
title_sort 50% higher prevalence of life-shortening chronic conditions among cancer patients with low socioeconomic status
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20978508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605949
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