title: Association of cancer with moderately impaired renal function at baseline in a large, representative, population-based cohort followed for up to 30 years.
abstract: Patients with chronic renal failure show a greater incidence of malignancies. We evaluated whether moderately impaired renal function at baseline influenced risk of all cancers during long-term follow in young persons. Our cohort included 33,346 subjects, aged 26-61 years at baseline, in a representative, population-based study enrolling subjects from 1974 to 1992. Median follow-up time was 28 years. Plasma creatinine was analyzed as a single measure at baseline. Incident cases of cancer were identified from the Swedish Cancer Registry. We studied 24,552 subjects from the cohort. To account for the unique sampling design, participants were divided by sex and age at baseline into 1,132 older men (age 60), 14,254 younger men (age 40-52), 7,498 older women (age 47-57) and 1,688 younger women (age 35-43). Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was estimated using the CKD-EPI formula. Patients were classified as having either normal to mildly impaired kidney function (eGFR ≥ 60 mL/min/1.73 m(2) ), or moderate kidney dysfunction (eGFR<60 mL/min/1.73 m(2) ). We calculated the risk of all cancers using competing risks regression. Overall, 6,595 participants were diagnosed with cancer, and 854 subjects (3.5%) had moderately impaired renal dysfunction at baseline. There was a significant association between moderately decreased GFR and subsequent risk of kidney cancer in younger men (hazard ratio, 3.38; 95% CI, 1.48 to 7.71; p = 0.004). However, we found no association with overall long-term cancer risk. Our confirmation of an association between moderately impaired renal function and risk of kidney cancer in younger men requires further exploration of high-risk groups and biological mechanisms.
authors: Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden. Anders.christensson@med.lu.se
authors: Anders
authors: A
authors: Christensson
authors: Caroline
authors: C
authors: Savage
authors: Daniel D
authors: DD
authors: Sjoberg
authors: Angel M
authors: AM
authors: Cronin
authors: M Frank
authors: MF
authors: O'Brien
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Lowrance
authors: Peter M
authors: PM
authors: Nilsson
authors: Andrew J
authors: AJ
authors: Vickers
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Russo
authors: Hans
authors: H
authors: Lilja
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D012306:Risk
keywords: cancer; chronic kidney disease; kidney cancer; renal function