Correlation between Physical Activities and Risk of Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-Analysis_Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Authors：

 ZHANGMeng-ting ¹ , TIANJin-hui ² , WANGZi-jing ³ ,  YANGYong-xiu ⁴

1. Department of Obstetrics, Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an 710077, China;
2. Evidence-based Medicine Center, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
3. First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
4. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;

Corresponding?author：

YANGYong-xiu, Email: yongxiuyang@163.com

Keywords：

Ovarian cancer; Physical activity; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Cohort study

DOI：

10.7507/1672-2531.20140193

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Objective To systematiclly review the correlation between physical activity and the risk of ovarian cancer. Methods Such databases as CBM, CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP, The Cochrane Library (Issue 10, 2013), PubMed, EMbase were searched from database establishment to October 2013 to collect prospective cohort studies about physical activities and the risk of ovarian cancer. Relevant magazines and references of included studies were also retrieved. Two reviewers independently screened literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted data, and assessed methodological quality of included studies. Then meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.2 software. Results A total of 8 cohort studies involving 580 581 subjects, of which there were 2 444 cases of patients with ovarian cancer. The results of meta-analysis showed that, women who participated in moderate level physical activities tended to have a lower incidence of ovarian cancer, compared with those who participated in low level physical activities (age-adjusted:RR=0.87, 95%CI 0.75 to 1.01, P=0.06; multivariate-adjusted:RR=0.97, 95%CI 0.83 to 1.14, P=0.71) but with no significant difference; while women who participated in high level physical activities tended to have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer with a significant difference found in the multivariate-adjusted results (age-adjusted:RR=1.19, 95%CI 0.91 to 1.56, P=0.21; multivariate-adjusted:RR=1.35, 95%CI 1.08 to 1.67, P=0.008). Along with the increase of sedentariness, the incidence of ovarian cancer rose, but with no significant difference. Conclusion Current evidence shows that, compared with low level physical activities, high level ones increase the risk of ovarian caner; while the effects of moderate level ones and sedentariness on the risk of ovarian caner still remain uncertain. However, more high-quality studies are required to verify the conclusion of this study because of the limited quantity of the included studies as well as many confounding factors.

Citation： ZHANGMeng-ting, TIANJin-hui, WANGZi-jing, YANGYong-xiu. Correlation between Physical Activities and Risk of Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2014, 14(10): 1194-1200. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140193 Copy

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4. Permuth-Wey J, Sellers TA. Epidemiology of ovarian cancer. Methods Mol Biol, 2009, 472:413-437.
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17. Calle EE, Kaaks R. Overweight, obesity and cancer:epidemiological evidence and proposed mechanisms. Nat Rev Cancer, 2004, 4(8):579-591.
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23. Godwin AK, Perez RP, Johnson SW, et al. Growth regulation of ovarian cancer. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am, 1992, 6(4):829-841.
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