Association between non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and non- Hodgkin's lymphoma

Abstract

From 1986 to 1993, 160 patients with nodal and extranodal lymphoma, excluding those who were positive for human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus type I antibody, were treated at Kobe University School of Medicine Hospital. No patients were positive for HIV-1 antibody. We excluded 27 patients (21 with nodal lymphoma, six with extranodal lymphoma) because adequate data were not documented. Thus 133 patients (74 with nodal lymphoma and 59 with extranodal lymphoma) remained in the study. The median age at diagnosis was 62 in patients with nodal lymphoma and 60 in patients with extranodal lymphoma. The distributions of age, sex, and histological findings were not significantly different between the group of patients with nodal lymphoma and the group with extranodal lymphoma except that the prevalence of patients with a follicular-type lymphoma was higher in the first group. The body mass index (weight (kg)/(height (m)²)) was 21.8 (SD 2.90) in the group of patients with nodal lymphoma and 22.6 (3.58) in the group with extranodal lymphoma.