Prostate Problems and Cholesterol

Feb. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Like any new field that is beginning to yield evidence in one direction, it also must be taken with caution for now. However, since the damage of having high cholesterol are well known in other areas, add a new edge to this list is encouraging. Two papers agree on aiming to maintain healthy cholesterol levels reduces the risk of prostate cancer among men.

This is a relationship that began to join a couple of years ago with little more limited studies, and two papers in the journal 'Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention' prop now with new data.

In one of the researchers, led from the Johns Hopkins University (USA) by Elizabeth Platz, found that men with lower levels of lipids were up to 60% less likely to be one of the most aggressive types of prostate tumor, high-grade cancer (a variety with a high propensity to spread to other body organs).

In its conclusions the team Platz, analyzed data from more than 5,500 men over 55 years, including in clinical trials on this disease between 1993 and 1996. Considering that a normal level of cholesterol is around 200 mg / dL (milligrams per deciliter of blood), men below this threshold were those who were less likely to have a high grade tumor.

As summarized his own research, his is a new reason to convince people of the need to keep your cholesterol within normal levels. While that itself recognizes that its work (financed with public funds from the National Cancer Institute) showed only a reduction of more aggressive variety of cancers (less frequently), not the other types of prostate tumors.

Undiagnosed Tumor

Something that has been observed in a paper published in parallel in the same journal by a team from the National Cancer Institute. In this case, they tracked for 18 years more than 29,000 men, representing one of the major initiatives of this kind.

In his conclusions, Dr. Demetrius Albanes observed a curious phenomenon. In their sample, paradoxically, have low cholesterol was associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, although this relationship vanished when the tumors diagnosed were excluded soon after blood collection.

This means, according to the authors, who actually appreciate what they were was not a causal relationship, but have low cholesterol could indicate the presence of yet undiagnosed tumors. In fact, when taken into account only cases of cancer diagnosed after nine years of onset, the diagnosis of prostate cancer were reduced by 14% among those lipids under control.

Despite these findings, both teams agree that it is too early to guess that quintessential anti-cholesterol drugs, statins, can be used in cancer prevention.

Although they do explain that there will be further investigating the role of metabolism in the onset of the disease, something that affects an editorial in the same journal Eric Jacobs, director of pharmacoepidemiology at the American Cancer Society. "One possibility would be to conduct a randomized trial among men with prostate tumors in early stages to see whether statins are able to stop the progression of cancer."

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