Global melanoma correlations with obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption

Nisha Batta; Sarah Shangraw; Andrew Nicklawsky; Takeshi Yamauchi; Zili Zhai; Dinoop Ravindran Menon; Dexiang Gao; Robert P Dellavalle; Mayumi Fujita

doi:10.2196/31275

Global melanoma correlations with obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption

JMIR Dermatol. 2021 Jul-Dec;4(2):e31275. doi: 10.2196/31275. Epub 2021 Dec 13.

Authors

Nisha Batta^#¹, Sarah Shangraw^#¹, Andrew Nicklawsky², Takeshi Yamauchi¹, Zili Zhai¹, Dinoop Ravindran Menon¹, Dexiang Gao², Robert P Dellavalle^{1

3

4}, Mayumi Fujita^{1

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
² Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
³ Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁵ Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 35990801
PMCID: PMC9387903
DOI: 10.2196/31275

No abstract available

Keywords: Global Cancer Observatory (GCO); Global Health Observatory (GHO); World Health Organization (WHO); alcohol consumption; aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2); melanoma incidence; melanoma mortality; non-UV risk factors; obesity; polymorphism; smoking; wine.

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