Combined lifestyle, mental health, and mortality in US cancer survivors: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adopting healthy lifestyles and staying mentally health are two cost-effective modifiable strategies that cancer survivors can implement in self-management. We aimed to evaluate the independent, mediation, interaction, and joint associations of combined lifestyle and mental health with mortality in cancer survivors.

Methods

We performed a cohort study including 3145 cancer survivors from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005-2018). A healthy lifestyle score was constructed based on post-diagnosis body mass index, physical activity, diet, smoking, and drinking. Post-diagnosis mental health was assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for all-cause, cancer, and non-cancer mortality were

SUBMITTER: Liu ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9389483 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature