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. 2016 May 17;59:1683–1691. doi: 10.1007/s00125-016-3972-x

Table 3.

Number of prostate cancers (NC), HRs and 95% CIs for HR for prostate cancer incidence in diabetic compared with non-diabetic men according to 1st, 2nd and the rest of the follow-up years from diabetes diagnosis

Gleason score category Follow-up: 2002–2012a
HR (95% CI)
14,099 prostate cancer events including those in non-diabetics
Follow-up: 2005–2012a
PSA-adjustedb HR (95% CI)
10,335 prostate cancer events including those in non-diabetics
Incident diabetes
n=193,835
Prevalent diabetes
n=74,756
Incident diabetes
n=185,888
Prevalent diabetes
n=65,001
1st year 2nd year 3rd year+ First 10 years 1st year 2nd year 3rd year+ First 7 years
All:
 NC 767 354 1, 592 1, 672 460 276 1, 547 1, 113
 HR 1.65 0.93 0.89 0.97 0.80 1.48 0.94 0.89 0.98 0.77
 (95% CI) (1.55, 1.76) (0.84, 1.03) (0.84, 0.95) (0.93, 1.02) (0.76, 0.85) (1.37, 1.61) (0.83, 1.06) (0.84, 0.94) (0.94, 1.02) (0.72, 0.82)
2–6:
 NC 420 217 961 885 271 179 940 637
 HR 1.47 0.89 0.83 0.90 0.71 1.32 0.90 0.82 0.91 0.68
 (95% CI) (1.35, 1.60) (0.77, 1.01) (0.77, 0.89) (0.85, 0.95) (0.66, 0.76) (1.19, 1.47) (0.78, 1.05) (0.77, 0.89) (0.85, 0.96) (0.62, 0.74)
7–10:
 NC 180 66 377 358 119 51 369 269
 HR 2.09 0.86 0.99 1.08 0.92 2.05 0.88 1.00 1.13 0.93
 (95% CI) (1.83, 2.38) (0.66, 1.10) (0.88, 1.11) (0.98, 1.20) (0.82, 1.03) (1.75, 2.39) (0.67, 1.17) (0.89, 1.13) (1.02, 1.25) (0.82, 1.06)
Unknown:
 NC 167 71 254 429 70 46 238 207
 HR 1.78 1.18 1.09 1.17 0.98 1.51 1.21 1.08 1.16 0.96
 (95% CI) (1.56, 2.03) (0.94, 1.48) (0.94, 1.26) (1.03, 1.31) (0.88, 1.09) (1.23, 1.86) (0.92, 1.61) (0.93, 1.25) (1.01, 1.30) (0.82, 1.12)

aAdjusted for age category (5 year increments), SES and ethnic origin

bAdjusted for PSA screening during 2002–2003

NC, number of cases