Determining the association of rurality and cardiovascular disease among prostate cancer survivors

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PURPOSE: Rural disparities in prostate cancer survivorship and cardiovascular disease remain. Prostate cancer treatment also contributes to worse cardiovascular disease outcomes. Our objective was to determine whether rural-urban differences in cardiovascular outcomes contribute to disparities in prostate cancer survivorship.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data were collected from the Utah Population Database. Rural and urban prostate cancer survivors were matched by diagnosis year and age. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios for cardiovascular disease (levels 1-3) based on rural-urban classification, while controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. We identified 3,379 rural and 16,253 urban prostate cancer survivors with a median follow-up of 9.3 years.

RESULTS: Results revealed that rural survivors had a lower risk of hypertension (HR 0.90), diseases of arteries (HR 0.92), and veins (HR 0.92) but a higher risk of congestive heart failure (HR 1.17). Interactions between level 2 cardiovascular diseases and rural/urban status, showed that diseases of the heart had a distinct between-group relationship for all-cause (P = 0.005) and cancer-specific mortality (P = 0.008).

CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed complex relationships between rural-urban status, cardiovascular disease, and prostate cancer. Rural survivors were less likely to be diagnosed with screen-detected cardiovascular disease but more likely to have heart failure. Further, the relationship between cardiovascular disease and survival was different between rural and urban survivors. It may be that our findings underscore differences in healthcare access where rural patients are less likely to be screened for preventable cardiovascular disease and have worse outcomes when they have a major cardiovascular event.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Urologic oncology - 41(2023), 10 vom: 15. Okt., Seite 429.e15-429.e23

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nielsen, Shaelee [VerfasserIn]
O'Neil, Brock [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Chun-Pin [VerfasserIn]
Mark, Bayarmaa [VerfasserIn]
Snyder, John [VerfasserIn]
Deshmukh, Vikrant [VerfasserIn]
Newman, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Date, Ankita [VerfasserIn]
Galvao, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Henry, N Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Lloyd, Shane [VerfasserIn]
Hashibe, Mia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Accessibility of health services
Cardiovascular disease
Journal Article
Prostate cancer
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Rural population
Socioeconomic status

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Date Completed 06.11.2023

Date Revised 18.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.urolonc.2023.06.008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359559166