Impact of body mass index on the prognosis of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

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Abstract

Although obesity is an established modifiable risk factor for multiple myeloma (MM), the influence of obesity on survival among Black patients, among whom obesity and MM are more common, is less clear. We evaluated the association of body mass index (BMI) with progression free survival and overall survival among 834 histologically confirmed patients with newly diagnosed MM (NDMM) enrolled in the Integrative Molecular And Genetic Epidemiology study between 2009 and 2020. We estimated the association of BMI with the risk for progressed disease and all-cause and MM-specific mortality using hazard ratios (HR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI), calculated from multivariable Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for prognostic factors. When compared with NDMM pat

SUBMITTER: Arnold KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12830122 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature