Association of post-diagnosis cardiorespiratory fitness with cause-specific mortality in cancer

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AIMS: The prognostic importance of post-diagnosis assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in cancer patients is not well established. We sought to examine the association between CRF and mortality in cancer patients.

METHODS AND RESULTS: This was a single-centre cohort analysis of 1632 patients (58% male; 64 ± 12 years) with adult-onset cancer who were clinically referred for exercise treadmill testing a median of 7 [interquartile range (IQR): 3-12] years after primary diagnosis. Cardiorespiratory fitness was defined as peak metabolic equivalents (METs) achieved during standard Bruce protocol and categorized by tertiles. The association between CRF and all-cause and cause-specific mortality was assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazard models adjusting for important covariates. Median follow-up was 4.6 (IQR: 2.6-7.0) years; a total of 411 deaths (229, 50, and 132 all-cause, cardiovascular (CV), and cancer related, respectively) occurred during this period. Compared with low CRF (range: 1.9-7.6 METs), the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause mortality was 0.38 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.28-0.52] for intermediate CRF (range: 7.7-10.6 METs) and 0.17 (95% CI: 0.11-0.27) for high CRF (range: 10.7-22.0 METs). The corresponding HRs were 0.40 (95% CI: 0.19-0.86) and 0.41 (95% CI: 0.16-1.05) for CV mortality and 0.40 (95% CI: 0.26-0.60) and 0.16 (95% CI: 0.09-0.28) for cancer mortality, respectively. The adjusted risk of all-cause, CV, and cancer mortality decreased by 26%, 14%, and 25%, respectively with each one MET increment in CRF.

CONCLUSION: Cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong, independent predictor of all-cause, CV, and cancer mortality, even after adjustment for important clinical covariates in patients with certain cancers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes - 6(2020), 4 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 315-322

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Groarke, John D [VerfasserIn]
Payne, David L [VerfasserIn]
Claggett, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Mehra, Mandeep R [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Caron, Jesse [VerfasserIn]
Mahmood, Syed S [VerfasserIn]
Hainer, Jon [VerfasserIn]
Neilan, Tomas G [VerfasserIn]
Partridge, Ann H [VerfasserIn]
Di Carli, Marcelo [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Lee W [VerfasserIn]
Nohria, Anju [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Cancer mortality
Cardiac rehab
Cardio-oncology
Cardiorespiratory fitness
Cardiovascular mortality
Cause-specific mortality
Exercise
Journal Article
Mortality
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 05.07.2021

Date Revised 09.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307556611