American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 147, No. 12: 1140-1144
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Retrospective Analysis of Birth Weight and Prostate Cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
1 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
3 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
4 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA
5 Renal Unit, Medical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
Reprint requests to Dr. Elizabeth A. Olatz, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.
The authors retrospectively evaluated the relation between birth weight and prostate cancer (1986–1994) among 21, 140 men of the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported in 1994 their weight at birth. No relation between birth weight and prostate cancer (n = 545) was observed in multivariate logistic models. For high stage/grade tumors (n – 213), compared with birth weights <7.0 lbs (<3, 175 g)t the relative risks were 1·20 (95% confidence interval (Cl) 0.79–1·83) for 8·5–9·9 lbs (3, 855·6–490.6 g) and 1.30 (95% Cl 0.80–2·10) for 
10 lbs (4, 536 g). These findings do not support an overall association between birth weight and prostate cancer incidence, but the possibility of a modest positive association between birth weight and high stage/ grade prostatic cancer cannot be excluded. Am J Epidemiol 1998; 147:1140–4.
birth weight; cohort studies; prostatic neoplasms
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