Journal of Medicine and Health
Vol 2 No 2 (2018)

The Relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Gleason Score of Indonesian Prostate Cancer Men in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital

Fauzan Abdurrahman (Universitas Padjadjaran)
Sri Suryanti (Unknown)
Aaron T Sihombing (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2018

Abstract

The risk of high grade PCa in Asia in relation to BMI had positive or negative effect. The objective of this study is to know the relationship between BMI and Gleason score in Indonesian PCa patients. A cross sectional study was conducted in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital. The data were secondary data taken from medical records of prostate adenocarcinoma patients in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital. Ordinal data were analyzed using Chi square and correlation using Spearman. All calculation was done using SPSS 24. There were 95 Indonesian PCa patients. 78 patients is in normal BMI range. Of those 41 patients (52.6%) is in high level of Gleason score. 17 patients is in high BMI range. High Gleason score was found in 11 patients (P = 0.362; rs = 0.094). Conclusion, there is no relation between BMI in Indonesian PCa and Gleason score.   Keywords : Prostate adenocarcinoma (PCa); BMI; Gleason score.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jmh

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Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology Public Health

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Journal of Medicine and Health (JMH) focuses on contributing towards science and research development that can be accessed by researchers and academic practitioners. Journal of Medicine and Health (JMH) is an open access journal, published biannually on every February and August. JMH receives ...