Meeting or Exceeding Physical Activity Guidelines is Associated with Reduced Risk for Cancer in Mexican-Americans

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Cancer Prev
• Personal Author:
  Wu, Shenghui ; Fisher-Hoch, Susan P. ; Reninger, Belinda ; McCormick, Joseph B.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Epidemiologic studies have shown that inadequate physical activity was associated with cancers in whites and other ethnic groups, but in Mexican-Americans data are limited. This study aimed to measure the association between physical activity and reported cancer risk in Mexican-Americans.
  
  Methods
  
  Participants were drawn from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (n=3,391), a randomly selected Mexican-American cohort in Texas on the US-Mexico border. Physical activity was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Cancer was self-reported by the participants as being told by a health care provider that they had cancer.
  
  Results
  
  Ninety-nine participants of the cohort (2.94%) reported a diagnosis of cancer. Compared to participants who did not meet US physical activity guidelines, subjects who met physical activity guidelines of 150 moderate and vigorous minutes per week (≥ 600 METs) reduced their risk for cancer by 87% (OR=0.13; 95% CI: 0.03–0.54), and subjects with total minutes per week of moderate and vigorous/strenuous activity greater than 745 METs decreased cancer risk by 86% [odds ratio (OR)=0.14; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.03–0.60] comparing with their counterparts, after adjusting for age, gender, body mass index, smoking and alcohol drinking status, education and total portions of fruit and vegetable intake.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Meeting or exceeding recommended levels of moderate and vigorous physical activity was associated with a significantly reduced risk of reporting cancer by Mexican-Americans. Meeting or exceeding recommended levels of physical activity appears to be an effective target for cancer prevention and control among Mexican-Americans independent of BMI and other factors.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Cancer Latino Mexican American Minority Population Physical Activity
• Source:
  Am J Cancer Prev. 4(1):1-7.
• Pubmed ID:
  28529961
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5438161
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P20 MD000170/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 DP000210/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; UL1 RR024148/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f3336413be2bc364aed16d108c485d3d835e45ea863c964d0b0d2390c8aad377
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45896/cdc_45896_DS1.pdf
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