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Published in final edited form as: Eur Urol. 2022 May 28;83(4):343–351. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.05.008

Table 3.

Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the joint association of polygenic risk score and healthy lifestyle score with overall and lethal prostate cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Physicians’ Health Study.

PRS quartile HPFS (n = 10 443) PHS (n = 1 968) Pooled (n = 12 411)
Healthy lifestyle score Healthy lifestyle score Healthy lifestyle score
Unhealthy (0–2) Moderate (3) Healthy (4–6) Unhealthy (0–2) Moderate (3) Healthy (4–6) Unhealthy (0–2) Moderate (3) Healthy (4–6)
HR (95% CI)a HR (95% CI)a HR (95% CI)a HR (95% CI)b HR (95% CI)b HR (95% CI)b HR (95% CI) HR (95% CI) HR (95% CI)
Overall prostate cancer
 75–100% 1 (Ref.) 0.97 (0.82–1.16) 1.01 (0.84–1.22) 1 (Ref.) 0.94 (0.57–1.54) 0.99 (0.60–1.65) 1 (Ref.) 0.97 (0.83–1.14) 1.01 (0.85–1.20)
 50–75% 0.52 (0.41–0.65) 0.53 (0.44–0.65) 0.62 (0.50–0.75) 0.36 (0.19–0.67) 0.45 (0.27–0.75) 0.48 (0.28–0.81) 0.50 (0.40–0.61) 0.52 (0.44–0.63) 0.60 (0.49–0.72)
 25–50% 0.28 (0.21–0.36) 0.31 (0.25–0.38) 0.37 (0.29–0.46) 0.18 (0.09–0.38) 0.33 (0.20–0.57) 0.28 (0.17–0.48) 0.26 (0.21–0.34) 0.31 (0.25–0.38) 0.35 (0.28–0.43)
 0–25% 0.16 (0.11–0.22) 0.18 (0.13–0.23) 0.22 (0.17–0.28) 0.11 (0.05–0.24) 0.16 (0.09–0.28) 0.15 (0.08–0.26) 0.15 (0.11–0.20) 0.17 (0.14–0.22) 0.20 (0.16–0.26)
Lethal prostate cancer
 75–100% 1 (Ref.) 0.62 (0.39–0.98) 0.52 (0.30–0.89) 1 (Ref.) 0.60 (0.28–1.31) 0.63 (0.29–1.34) 1 (Ref.) 0.61 (0.41–0.91) 0.55 (0.36–0.86)
 50–75% 0.51 (0.29–0.89) 0.47 (0.29–0.76) 0.45 (0.26–0.78) 0.45 (0.18–1.17) 0.33 (0.15–0.73) 0.31 (0.14–0.69) 0.49 (0.31–0.80) 0.42 (0.28–0.64) 0.40 (0.25–0.63)
 25–50% 0.27 (0.14–0.54) 0.34 (0.20–0.57) 0.23 (0.12–0.45) 0.31 (0.12–0.85) 0.26 (0.12–0.58) 0.17 (0.08–0.40) 0.28 (0.16–0.50) 0.31 (0.20–0.49) 0.20 (0.12–0.35)
 0–25% 0.14 (0.06–0.33) 0.21 (0.11–0.38) 0.20 (0.10–0.40) 0.10 (0.03–0.37) 0.12 (0.05–0.31) 0.13 (0.06–0.31) 0.12 (0.06–0.26) 0.18 (0.11–0.29) 0.17 (0.10–0.29)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HPFS, Health Professionals Follow-up Study; HR, hazard ratio; PHS, Physicians’ Health Study; PRS, polygenic risk score.

a

HPFS: Inverse probability weighted Cox regression models, stratified by birth cohort and adjusted for age (underlying time-scale), calendar period of inclusion, genetic ancestry (PC1-PC3), lagged PSA screening history, history of other cancers, history of diabetes, current aspirin use, current statin use, and total energy intake.

b

PHS: Inverse probability weighted Cox regression models, stratified by birth cohort and adjusted for age (underlying time-scale), genetic ancestry (PC1-PC3), history of other cancers, history of diabetes and randomization status.