The Purported Effects of Alcohol on Appetite and Weight in Lung Cancer Patients

摘要: Loss of appetite and weight predict poor outcomes in patients with advanced cancer. Effective affordable palliative strategies are lacking; but because an emerging non-cancer literature suggests that alcohol can increase weight, this study explored associations between clinical lung cancer patients. Among 404 consecutive enrolled the Mayo Clinic Lung Cancer Cohort 2004 2008, consumption (within 6 mo diagnosis) was as follows: 199 (49%) used none, 158 (14%) were moderate users (7 drinks per wk or less), 47 (12%) heavier consumers (more than 7 wk). Only had a lower likelihood anorexia (odds ratio: 0.49; 95% CI: 0.25, 0.94; P = 0.03) loss 0.43; 0.20, 0.91; compared to those who consumed no alcohol. These conclusions sustained multivariate analyses. Neither nor associated better worse survival, although, univariate analyses, drop survival. This report need for further agent cancer-associated weight.