Long-Term Cardiovascular Mortality among 80,042 Older Patients with Bladder Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To identify the risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in older patients with bladder cancer (BC).

Methods

This population-based study included 80,042 older BC patients (≥65 years) diagnosed between 1975 and 2018, with a mean follow-up of 17.2 years. The proportion of deaths, competing risk models, standardized mortality ratio (SMR), and absolute excess risk (AER) per 10,000 person-years were applied to identify the risk of CVD-related deaths among older BC patients.

Results

For older patients with BC, CVD-related death was the chief cause of death, and cumulative CVD-related mortality also exceeded primary BC as the leading cause of death mostly 5-10 years after BC diagnosis, especially in localized-stage and low-grade subgroups. The risk of short

SUBMITTER: Guan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9559628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature