Cancer risk according to lifestyle risk score trajectories: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While individual lifestyle behaviors have been associated with cancer risk, combined impact of these factors remains understudied. This research explores relationships between lifestyle risk score trajectories and cancer risk within the Korean population.

Methods

A cohort of 3,451,189 cancer-free men and women who participated in a health examination between 2002 and 2003, provided by the National Health Insurance, was studied. Lifestyle risk score trajectories were determined using group-based trajectory modeling based on total score of four modifiable unhealthy behaviors: current smoking, heavy alcohol drinking, excess body weight, and physical inactivity repeatedly observed three times between 2002 and 2007. Scores ranged between 0 (low risk) and 8 (high risk).

SUBMITTER: Khong TMT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032105 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature