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- Title
Association of C-peptide and leptin with prostate cancer incidence in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
- Authors
Lai, Gabriel Y; Giovannucci, Edward L; Pollak, Michael N; Peskoe, Sarah B; Stampfer, Meir J; Willett, Walter C; Platz, Elizabeth A
- Abstract
Hyperinsulinemia is hypothesized to influence prostate cancer risk. Thus, we evaluated the association of circulating C-peptide, which is a marker of insulin secretion, and leptin, which is secreted in response to insulin and influences insulin sensitivity, with prostate cancer risk.
- Publication
Cancer causes & control : CCC, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 5, p625
- ISSN
1573-7225
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10552-014-0369-3