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J Cancer 2017; 8(15):2959-2965. doi:10.7150/jca.20532 This issue Cite

Research Paper

Association between Periodontal disease and Prostate cancer: Results of a 12-year Longitudinal Cohort Study in South Korea

Jae-Hong Lee^1*, Helen Hye-In Kweon^2*, Jung-Kyu Choi³, Young-Taek Kim², Seong-Ho Choi⁴

1. Department of Periodontology, Daejeon Dental Hospital, Wonkwang University College of Dentistry, Daejeon, South Korea;
2. Department of Periodontology, Ilsan Hospital, National Health Insurance Service, Goyang, South Korea;
3. Department of Health Insurance Research, Ilsan Hospital, National Health Insurance Service, Goyang, South Korea;
4. Department of Periodontology, Research Institute for Periodontal Regeneration, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, South Korea.
* Jae-Hong Lee and Helen Hye-In Kweon contributed equally to the writing of this work.

✉ Corresponding author: Seong-Ho Choi, PhD, Department of Periodontology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea. Fax: +82-2-3920398; e-mail: shchoi726ac

Abstract

The incidence of prostate cancer (PC) accompanying periodontal disease (PD) is anticipated to increase due to population aging. The aim of this study was to determine the association between PD and PC using data in the National Health Insurance Service-Health Examinee Cohort (NHIS-HEC). A random stratified sample of 187,934 South Koreans was collected from the NHIS database from 2002 to 2013. We assessed the relationship between PD and PC while adjusting for potential confounding factors (sex, age, household income, insurance status, residence area, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cerebral infarction, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, smoking status, alcohol intake, and regular exercise). The overall incidence of PC with PD among those aged 40 years and older was 0.28% (n = 531). In the multivariate Cox proportional-hazard regression analysis with adjustment for confounding factors, PD was associated with a 14% higher risk of PC (HR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01-1.31, P = 0.042). The findings of this study suggest that PD is significantly and positively associated with PC. Further studies are required to identify the mechanisms underlying the links between PD and PC.

Keywords: Cohort analysis, periodontal disease, periodontitis, prostate cancer.

Introduction

Periodontal disease (PD) is a chronic bacterial and inflammatory disease whose prevalence is reportedly as high as 90% [1, 2]. PD can routinely injure or damage both oral soft and hard tissues such as gingiva, cementum, periodontal ligament, and supporting alveolar bone, and it is the primary risk factor for tooth loss in adults [3, 4]. Recent studies have also found PD to be associated with cardiovascular disease, pregnancy disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes mellitus, and erectile dysfunction [5-8]. Oral pathologic bacteria are not only a dominant risk factor for PD, but are also a risk factor for major systemic diseases due to several mechanisms involving modulation of the inflammatory pathway and systemic immunity [9].

Chronic inflammation caused by bacterial infection has been reported as one of the main factors underlying the development of cancer [10]. Cumulative studies have demonstrated the relation between oral bacteria and initiation or progression of systemic cancer [11]. In particular, oral pathologic bacteria such as Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola, and Porphyromonas gingivalis are significantly positively associated with oral, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal cancers [12, 13]. Oral pathologic bacteria can either up- or down-regulate proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, including interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and C-reactive protein, resulting in oral pathologic bacteria being able to affect the oral and systemic immune systems of the body and also induce oncogenic responses [14, 15].

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most-common cancer in men in the United States and Europe. While PC is only the fifth-most-common diagnosed malignancy and the seventh leading cause of cancer death among men in South Korea, the rapid aging of the Korea population and the increasing prevalence of obesity have resulted in a steep increase in the incidence of PC recently. PD is apparently associated with oral bacterial dysbiosis and systemic immune responses, but the role of oral pathogenic bacteria in carcinogenesis remains unclear. Also, a direct correlation between PD and PC is still unclear and controversial. While numerous cross-sectional and cohort studies have identified associations between PD and facial cancers, especially those of the oral and neck, there have been very few well-designed studies with stratified longitudinal cohorts comparing PD and PC [16, 17]. Our aim was therefore to determine whether there is a connection between PD and PC using data from a South Korean nationwide population based on National Health Insurance Service-Health Examinee Cohort (NHIS-HEC).

Materials and Methods

Study design and data collection

In South Korea, patients in the NHIS are required to pay approximately 30% of their total medical expenses when they use medical facilities, with the medical providers submitting claims for the remaining 70%. This has resulted in the NHIS having access to an enormous database (DB) of more than one trillion cases involving the entire Korean population of 51 million covering the past decade. This DB includes information on individual qualification criteria, insurance coverage and payouts, medical and dental records, health checkups, rare incurable diseases, systemic cancer, and long-term-care insurance services. The NHIS program is designed for the heads of households, household members aged 40 years or older, and workplace subscribers who receive regular health checkup examinations once every 2 years, which include a self-reported questionnaire on smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise.

A random stratified sample of 514,866 South Koreans was collected from the NHIS DB by the NHIS Big Data Steering Department, which is conducting 1,476-stage simple sampling based on sex, age, and household income level for the 12 years from 2002 to 2013. After performing stratified sampling of the data for 2002, the data in the cohort DB are maintained to 2013 except when sample objects become ineligible due to death or emigration. To compensate for the natural reduction in the population data over time, neonatal samples are added yearly in order to maintain the sample size, making this a semidynamic cohort. All personal information and identification numbers were deleted prior to the analysis, and a computer-generated random number was allocated to each sample. This study conformed to the STROBE guidelines for reporting observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org) and was approved by the Institutional Review Board, Daejeon Dental Hospital, Wonkwang University (approval no. W1702/004-001).

Identification of sociodemographic factors

Potential confounding sociodemographic factors of PD and PC were assessed from the NHIS-HEC DB: sex, age (4 groups: those aged 40-69 years in 10-year intervals, and those aged ≥70 years), household income (5 groups: 41 groups were divided into 5 quintiles based on the insurance fee imposed on each household, with the Medical Aid Program [MAP] group corresponds to the first quintile), insurance status (3 groups: those in the MAP and those in the NHIS, where the NHIS group included both self-employed and employees), and residence area (2 groups: with a cutoff of 50,000 residents).

Identification of comorbidity

Patients who were diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease prior to 2002 were excluded, and the following lifestyle-related comorbidities present from 2002 to 2013 were diagnosed by medical doctors: hypertension (Korean Classification of Diseases, 6th revision [KCD-6] codes I10 and I15, corresponding to International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision [ICD-10-CM] codes I10 and I15), diabetes mellitus (KCD-6 codes E10-E14, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes E10-E14), cerebral infarction (KCD-6 codes I63-I66, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes I63-I66), angina pectoris (KCD-6 codes I20, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes I20), and myocardial infarction (KCD-6 codes I21 and I22, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes I21 and I22). To increase the validity of the assessment in comorbidities diagnoses, we only included patients with comorbidities who have been diagnosed at least twice during the period from 2002 to 2013.

Identification of patients with prostate cancer

97% of cancer patients are fully or partially covered by NHI and all cancer patients are registered in NHIS and Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) DB. Therefore, this study performed that PC diagnostic and prescription codes were obtained based on the NHIS and HIRA. Patients who were diagnosed with cancer prior to 2002 and aged <40 years were excluded according to self-reported questionnaire information in the NHIS regular health check-up examination. We selected patients who had been newly diagnosed with PC (KCD-6 codes C61; corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes C61) by medical oncologists and urologists from 2002 to 2013 and the date of which cancer was first diagnosed was assigned as the index date.

Identification of patients with periodontal disease

This study involved adult patients who were aged ≥40 years and diagnosed with acute periodontitis, chronic periodontitis, periodontosis, other PD, and unspecified PD (KCD-6 codes K05.2 to K05.6, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes K05.2 to K05.6) prior to the index date between 2002 and 2013. The patients who were diagnosed as acute and chronic gingivitis (KCD-6 codes K05.0 to K05.1, corresponding to ICD-10-CM codes K05.0 to K05.1) were excluded as a reversible inflammatory PD. To increase the validity of the assessment of PD diagnoses, we only included patients with PD who have been diagnosed at least twice with a specific PD related-disorder during the period from 2002 through 2013. Clinical and radiographic diagnoses of PD were based on measurements of the amount of bleeding on probing, probing depth (measured between the gingival crest margin and the base of the apical lesion), clinical attachment level (measured between the cementoenamel junction and the base of the apical lesion), gingival inflammation, and radiographic alveolar bone loss according to criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Academy of Periodontology case definitions by local dentists or periodontists [18, 19].

Statistical analysis

The chi-square test was used to identify significant differences in categorical cohort data for sociodemographic factors (sex, age, household income, insurance status, and residence area), comorbidities (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cerebral infarction, angina pectoris, and myocardial infarction), self-reported questionnaire (smoking status, day's smoking, alcohol intake habits, one-time alcohol intake, and regular exercise), and incidence of PC with PD. We calculated hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using multivariate Cox proportional-hazards regression models while adjusting for sociodemographic factors, comorbidities, smoking status, alcohol intake, and regular exercise. The cumulative incidence of PC with/without PD was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with the log-rank test. In all assessments performed in this study, P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant and statistical tests were two-sided. All cohort data used in this study were calculated using the Statistical Analysis System (version 9.2, SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA) by the Department of Health Insurance Research, Ilsan Hospital, NHIS.

Results

Incidence of prostate cancer patients with periodontal disease

Fig. 1 shows a cohort flow chart for the inclusion and exclusion of the study participants. Among the total cohort of 514,866 people, 326,932 (Female and cancer history) were excluded from the study and 187,934 (18.3%) males and aged ≥40 years were recruited. We enrolled 934 subjects who were diagnosed with PC, comprising 531 PD patients (56.9%) and 403 Non-PD patients (43.1%). Those aged 60-69 years (n = 398) accounted for 42.6% of the surveyed subjects, while 361 (38.7%) were in the fifth quintile of household income, 927 (99.3%) were in the NHIS, and 782 (83.7%) lived in urban areas (Table 1).

 Figure 1 

Flow chart of the inclusion and exclusion of participants in the National Health Insurance Service- Health Examinee Cohort during 2002-2013; PD: periodontal disease.

Results of comorbidity and regular health check-up examination

Although comorbid disease (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cerebral infarction, angina pectoris, and myocardial infarction) showed higher incidence of PD patients compared with Non-PD patients, only myocardial infarction was statistically significantly higher in PD patients compared with Non-PD patients (P < 0.001). In the questionnaire survey, smoking and exercise status were only statistically significant between PD patients and Non-PD patients (P < 0.001; Table 2).

Association of prostate cancer with periodontal disease

In the multivariate Cox regression analysis with adjustment for sociodemographic factors, comorbidities, smoking status, alcohol intake, and regular exercise, PD was associated with a 14% higher risk of PC (HR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01-1.31, P = 0.042). In addition, using the adjusted Kaplan-Meier curve with the number of subjects at risk, we found that the incidence of PC with PD was significantly higher than that of PC without PD (P < 0.001; Fig. 2). The presence of both PC and PD was significantly positively correlated with current smoking (HR = 1.68, 95% CI = 1.52-1.85, P < 0.001), smoking ≥20 cigarettes a day (HR = 1.20, 95% CI = 1.04-1.40, P = 0.015), consuming alcohol every day (HR = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.09-1.25, P < 0.001), and consuming ≥1 bottle of beer (360 ml) daily (HR = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.03-1.13, P < 0.001; Table 3).

 Figure 2 

Cumulative incidence of prostate cancer with/without periodontal disease (PD) was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. Incidence of prostate cancer patients with PD was higher and significantly different from prostate cancer patients without PD (P < 0.001).

Discussion

PD is the most-common inflammatory disease, and many of its known risk factors - sex, age, smoking, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus - are also considered to be risk factors for systemic cancer [20]. We observed that the risk of PC was significantly positively correlated with age ≥70 years, lower income, being registered with the MAP, myocardial infarction, heavy smoking, high alcohol consumption, and less exercise. The data was not statistically significant except second quintile, but the lower the household income, the higher the risk for PC. This can be explained by the reduced accessibility to healthcare services and limitations of the current study involving PC patients who only visited clinics for the cancer but not for the PD. We also found that the incidence of PD - which is well known to be related to oral cancer - was also significantly positive associated with PC in a multivariate analysis.

Few studies have investigated the association of PC with PD [21-23]. In one prospective cohort based on the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study it was found that PD was correlated with a slight but significant increase in the risk of systemic cancer, but PD was also inversely correlated with PC (HR = 0.99, 95% CI = 0.61-1.59) and tooth loss (HR = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.50-0.97) [21]. Hiraki et al. [22] conducted a large-scale case-control study of Japanese patients, and reported that increased tooth loss was correlated with a decreased risk of PC after adjusting for potential confounding factors (odds ratio [OR] = 0.49, 95% CI = 0.19-1.26, P = 0.049). In particular, the risk of PC was higher when more teeth were remaining, and this may have been due not only to the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the studied subjects, but also to the number of teeth affected by PD. Unlike these studies, the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study found that PD was associated with an elevated risk of PC (HR = 1.81, 95% CI = 0.76-4.34) [23]. However, that study was hampered by poor statistical power due to the smallness of the sample and also potentially by the smallness of any real effects.

Both the bivariate analysis (HR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.40-1.83, P < 0.001; data not shown) and multivariate analysis (HR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01-1.31, P = 0.042) performed in the present study showed that PD was positively and significantly associated with PC. Both diseases produce generalized inflammation and infection in the body, and especially chronic PD has been shown to increase the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) that is produced primarily by epithelial prostate cells and is used to diagnose PC [24]. The PSA level is significantly higher in chronic prostatitis patients with PD characterized by a gingival clinical attachment level of ≥ 2.7 mm (10.8±7.0 ng/ml) than in those without such PD (5.6±3.7 ng/ml, P = 0.05) [24]. In addition, Alwithanani et al. [25] reported that the mean PSA level was significantly higher in PD patients regardless of the presence or absence of PC and the prostate symptom score, and that the PSA level might decrease after treating PD. There is accumulating evidence of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-6, IL-8, IL-18, TNF-α, and C-reactive protein being associated with the pathogenesis of PC [24]. These observations may indicate the similarity of the etiopathogenesis of PD and PC.

A recent systematic review found a significant positive relationship between PD and erectile dysfunction [26]. Both conditions share chronic inflammation and systemic endothelial dysfunction, which are also key mechanisms of carcinogenesis [27]. The invasion of oral pathological bacteria, especially Porphyromonas gingivalis, may induce traumatic injury and irritation of the epithelium and mucosa, and play a role in subsequent cancer progression [28, 29]. A nationwide population-based cohort study found that the risk of cancer was 1.42-fold higher (95% CI = 1.03-2.09, P = 0.039) in patients with erectile dysfunction [30]. In our previous study we found a strong association between PD and vasculogenic erectile dysfunction in a nationwide population-based NHIS-HEC (OR = 1.53, 95% CI = 1.41-1.65, P < 0.001) [31]. Although the evidence is not definitive, these results suggest that a diagnosis of PD is associated with a higher risk of PC.

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the most-common standard treatment for advanced PC, and its application is increasing rapidly [32]. However, many studies have suggested that ADT is associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and Alzheimer's disease, with in particular it being the main cause of male osteoporosis since it can affect almost any bone structure of the body [33, 34]. Male osteoporosis can result from various causes, including bone resorption, bone loss, and bone fracture, and several studies have found that PD can be exacerbated by systemic bone loss such as osteoporosis or rheumatoid arthritis [35-37]. Famili et al. [38] considered that patients with PC receiving ADT are more likely to develop PD or experience worsening of PD than are patients who are not on ADT. Although it is difficult to conclude that ADT for PC can induce or exacerbate PD, this observation should be considered when deciding whether or not to apply ADT to PC patients.

This study was subject to several limitations. Firstly, selection bias may have been present due to its retrospective design and only including patients who visited dental clinics and hospitals and who were diagnosed with PD and PC [39]. Secondly, this study did not analyze medical and dental records, which restricted the ability to diagnose the severity and the follow-up period of PD and PC in the DB of this cohort. Therefore, future cohort studies should consider the severity and the follow-up period of PD and PC in the design. Finally, because the data were acquired from a diverse group of medical and dental specialties, inconsistent diagnostic criteria were likely to have been applied. Nevertheless, the results from this nationwide population-based longitudinal cohort study in South Korea are considered to provide evidence for a link between PD and PC. PD is clearly intimately associated with systemic inflammation and immune dysregulation, which are both direct and indirect etiological factors in systemic cancer [40, 41]. However, the etiological and bidirectional associations between PD and PC remain unclear, and little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Therefore, further investigations of the biological plausibility and the gathering of clinical and epidemiological evidence are needed to both strengthen and understand the association between PD and PC.

Conclusion

To our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the association of PC with PD using a retrospective analysis of a nationwide population-based NHIS-HEC. In contrast to some previous studies, the present cohort study has shown that patients with PD have a significantly but slightly positive in patients with PC. Further studies are required to strengthen this hypothesis and focus on identifying the mechanisms underlying the links between PD and PC. If confirmed, this observation could have clinical and public health implications given the increasing prevalence of PD worldwide.

Abbreviations

PC: prostate cancer; PD: periodontal disease; NHIS-HEC: National Health Insurance Service-Health Examinee Cohort; IL: interleukin; TNF: tumor necrosis factor; DB: database; HIRA: Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service; PSA: prostate-specific antigen; ADT: Androgen deprivation therapy.

Acknowledgements

This study used a national sample cohort data of the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS-2017-2-377) and was supported by Wonkwang University in 2017. The authors report no conflicts of interest related to this study.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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Author contact

Corresponding author: Seong-Ho Choi, PhD, Department of Periodontology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea. Fax: +82-2-3920398; e-mail: shchoi726ac

Received 2017-4-12
Accepted 2017-6-25
Published 2017-8-25

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