The Association between Diabetes Mellitus and Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels

Autor:	Waleed Nassar Jaffal, Alaa Al-Deen Al-Dabbagh, Ehab Jasim Mohammad, Mahir Ali Al-Talah
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Cancer medicine.disease Gastroenterology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Prostate cancer medicine.anatomical_structure Antigen Prostate Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus medicine Hemoglobin Pancreas business Body mass index
Zdroj:	Medico-Legal Update. 20
ISSN:	0974-1283 0971-720X
DOI:	10.37506/mlu.v20i4.1889
Popis:	Background: Diabetic patients were indicated to have an improved risk for cancers of the liver, pancreas,and colon; nevertheless, recently many studies have suggested that diabetes mellitus (DM) decreasedpossibility for developing the cancer of prostate in men.Objective: To analyze if the levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in serum of men with type two DMwere low in comparison with healthy group, and to investigate the factors that could influence the PSA levelin diabetic patients.Method: 120 diabetic men patients were analyzed for PSA levels in the serum compared with equal numberage-matched control group. The relationships between the serum PSA levels and body mass index (BMI),age, hypertension, smoking and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were considered.Results: Serum PSA levels were statistically significantly (p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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