Shipra Banik

Publications

• Research Article   
  Prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease: Correlated?
  Author(s): Shipra Banik, Mahashweta Das, Ishita Saha, Rui Gong, Poonam Singh, Jinseog Kim and Rabindra Nath Das*
  
  Many authors have reported that Prostate Cancer (PC) and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) are strongly associated, while it is not yet well established. The current report examines this fundamental query by examining the associations of a PC biomarker known as serum Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (PAP) with CVD risk factors such as Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), along with CVD history, and classified CVD patients based on Electrocardiogram (EKG) status, and conversely. It is derived herein that PAP has no association with SBP and DBP, while the mean PAP level is significantly higher for non-CVD subjects (P=0.0179), than for CVD patients. The variance of PAP level is significantly more scattered for CVD patients (P=0.0190) than normal, and also it is significantly more scattered for normal subjects based on EKG (P=0.0249), than the others. On the other hand, the.. Read More»
  

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