Eleanor L Watts, Tomas I Gonzales, Tessa Strain, Pedro F Saint-Maurice, D Timothy Bishop, Stephen J Chanock, Mattias Johansson, Temitope O Keku, Loic Le Marchand, Victor Moreno, Polly A Newcomb, Christina C Newton, Rish K Pai, Mark P Purdue, Cornelia M Ulrich, Karl Smith-Byrne, Bethany Van Guelpen, Felix R Day, Katrien Wijndaele, Nicholas J Wareham, Charles E Matthews, Steven C Moore, Soren Brage
BACKGROUND: The association of fitness with cancer risk is not clear. METHODS: We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for risk of lung, colorectal, endometrial, breast, and prostate cancer in a subset of UK Biobank participants who completed a submaximal fitness test in 2009-12 (N = 72,572). We also investigated relationships using two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR), odds ratios (ORs) were estimated using the inverse-variance weighted method...
December 6, 2023: British Journal of Cancer