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. 2012 Aug 23;2012:206414. doi: 10.1155/2012/206414

Table 3.

Subsequent chronic diseases in men and women.

Cancer survivors Non-cancer patients P-value HR2 (95% CI)
N Inc1 N Inc1
Ten most common subsequent diseases in cancer patients
 Diabetes mellitus 133 13.46 589 14.79 0.31 0.91 0.75 1.09
 Venous thrombosis
  Baseline—2 years 45 9.27 40 2.11 0.00 4.20 2.74 6.44
  2 years—end of follow-up 20 3.10 58 2.11 0.15 1.45 0.87 2.41
 Osteoporosis 99 8.93 354 7.90 0.15 1.18 0.94 1.47
 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 95 8.81 378 8.56 0.97 1.00 0.80 1.25
 Heart failureδ 94 8.31 380 8.28 0.80 0.97 0.77 1.22
 Stroke/cerebrovascular accident 92 8.27 435 9.81 0.08 0.82 0.65 1.03
 Dementiaβ 83 7.16 417 8.93 0.07 0.81 0.64 1.02
 Ischemic heart disease without anginaβ 71 6.76 308 7.17 0.50 0.92 0.71 1.19
 Ischemic heart disease with angina 65 6.29 294 7.03 0.36 0.88 0.67 1.15
 Osteoarthrosis hip 66 6.05 268 6.11 0.95 1.01 0.77 1.32
Significant differences between cancer and non-cancer patients3
 Hypertension with organ damage 41 3.67 250 5.55 0.01 0.66 0.48 0.92
 Lipid disorders
  Baseline—2 years 16 3.66 129 7.62 0.01 0.49 0.29 0.82
  2 years—end of follow-up 31 5.27 171 7.08 0.16 0.76 0.52 1.11
 Benign prostatic hypertrophy 27 5.05 223 10.87 0.00 0.46 0.31 0.69

1Inc: incidence per 1000 person years at risk.

2HR: hazard ratio adjusted for sex, age, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and diabetes.

3Please see Table 3 in the Supplementary Material on the journal website for all other diseases.

Adjusted for age as time-varying coefficient.

δAdjusted for sex and age as time-varying coefficient.

βAdjusted for cardiovascular diseases as time-varying coefficient.