title: Association between urinary cadmium and all cause, all cancer and prostate cancer specific mortalities for men: an analysis of national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES III) data.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study employed public use National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) data to investigate the association between urinary cadmium (UDPSI) and all cause, all cancer and prostate cancer mortalities in men.
  
  
  METHODS
  NHANES III household adult, laboratory and mortality data were merged. The sampling weight used was WTPFEX6, with SDPPSU6 applied for the probability sampling unit and SDPSTRA6 to designate the strata for the survey analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For prostate cancer death, the significant univariates were UDPSI, age, weight, and drinking. Under multivariate logistic regression, the significant covariates were age and weight. For all cause mortality in men, the significant covariates were UDPSI, age, and poverty income ratio. For all cancer mortality in men, the significant covariates were UDPSI, age, black and Mexican race.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  UDPSI was a predictor of all cause and all cancer mortalities in men as well as prostate cancer mortality.
authors: FROS Radiation Oncology Cyberknife Center of New York, NY, USA E-mail : cheung.r100@gmail.com.
authors: Min Rex
authors: MR
authors: Cheung
authors: Josephine
authors: J
authors: Kang
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Ouyang
authors: Vincent
authors: V
authors: Yeung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D001835:Body Weight; D002104:Cadmium / Q000652:urine*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D011203:Poverty; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D002104:Cadmium