Sijun Liu^1,2, Zongwei Wang¹, Xingbo Long³, Aaron Fleishman¹, Xiangchun Huang⁴, Qingguang Wu², Boris Gershman¹, Aria F. Olumi¹

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 10992-11002, 2022

Abstract Introduction: To determine whether marital status combined with race serve as prognostic factors for survival in localized prostate cancer.
Materials and methods: Patients with localized prostate cancer were retrospectively extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Chi-square test was used to investigate the association between marital status combined with race and other variables. Gray’s test was used to compare the cumulative incidence function of different variables. Multivariable analysis was conducted to assess prognostic factors after adjusting for other variables.
Results: A total of 207,219 patients with localized prostate cancer from the SEER database from 2010… More >

Joongbaeck Kim¹, Manacy Pai^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 311-329, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.017555 - 17 March 2022

Abstract Extensive research suggests that living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with poor mental health. Few studies, however, have examined (1) whether neighborhood disadvantage is associated with residents’ self-esteem; and (2) the extent to which individual-level socioeconomic resources such as income and education, and relational resources such as marriage and social support moderate the association between neighborhood disadvantage and self-esteem. This study employs data from the Americans’ Changing Lives panel survey (hereafter ACL), a 15-year panel study of the U.S. adult population ages 25 and older in original sample. Because hierarchical linear model was… More >

Mark D. Tyson¹, Paul E. Andrews¹, David A. Etzioni², Robert G. Ferrigni¹, Mitchell R. Humphreys¹, Scott K. Swanson¹, Erik P. Castle¹

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.20, No.2, pp. 6702-6706, 2013

Abstract Introduction: To evaluate the influence of marriage on the survival outcomes of men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Materials and methods: We examined 115,922 prostate cancer cases reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 1988 and 2003. Multivariate Cox regression techniques were used to study the relationship of marital status and prostate cancer-specific and overall mortality.
Results: Married men comprised 78% of the cohort (n = 91,490), while unmarried men (single, divorced, widowed, and separated) comprised 22% of the cohort (n = 24,432). Married men were younger (66.4 versus 67.8 years, p < 0.0001), more… More >