Clinical Report: Correction to the Sport, Genetics, and BPH Cohort Study
Overview
The correction notice addresses errors in the affiliation order and figure legends in the 2026 article on sport, genetic susceptibility, and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) risk. It supplies corrected affiliations and revised titles and descriptions for Figures 1–4; the original study’s results are not reported in this correction notice.
Background
BPH is the subject of the prospective cohort study identified in the correction notice, which examined physical activity, genetic susceptibility, and incident BPH in the UK Biobank. Accurate affiliations and figure legends are important for identifying institutional contributions and interpreting the analyses presented in the original article. The correction specifies that the original version contained errors in both areas and states that the initial version has now been revised.
Data Highlights
Item
Correction
Affiliations
Corrected the order and presentation of the Jianyang People's Hospital Department of Urology and West China Hospital, Sichuan University's Kidney Transplantation Center affiliations.
Figure 1
Added the title “Participant Selection Flowchart for the Analytical Cohort”; the legend describes cohort exclusions, formation of the final analytical cohort, and incident BPH during median follow-up of 15.01 years.
Figure 2
Added the title “Exposure–response associations between physical activities and incident BPH risk” and clarified panels for walking, moderate activity, and vigorous activity, with adjustment variables.
Figure 3
Clarified that adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals describe the association between BPH polygenic risk score and BPH risk under two adjustment models.
Figure 4
Clarified that the combined analysis evaluated walking and genetic susceptibility in relation to BPH using demographic, lifestyle, socioeconomic, employment, genotyping-batch, and ancestry-related covariates.
Key Findings
The correction concerns the 2026, volume 44, page 399 article on sport, genetic susceptibility, and BPH risk.
The original publication presented the corresponding affiliations in the wrong order; the correction provides the revised institutional details.
Figure 1’s corrected legend identifies the participant-selection flowchart and reports a median follow-up period of 15.01 years.
Figure 2’s corrected legend identifies exposure–response analyses for walking, moderate physical activity, and vigorous physical activity, and lists the adjustment variables.
Figure 3’s corrected legend describes adjusted hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals for the association between BPH polygenic risk score and BPH risk, using two adjustment models.
Figure 4’s corrected legend specifies that the combined analysis relates walking and genetic susceptibility to BPH; the correction notice does not provide study effect estimates or conclusions.
Clinical Implications
This notice corrects publication metadata and figure descriptions rather than reporting new clinical results. The correction alone does not provide evidence to guide clinical assessment or management of BPH.
Conclusion
The article’s affiliations and legends for Figures 1–4 have been corrected. The notice does not alter or summarize the cohort study’s numerical findings.
