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Obesity Linked To Increasing Number Of Cancers: Study
[The Wire] A new study has found that obese people are at risk for being diagnosed with more cancers than previously thought.Those with larger body mass index (BMI) measurements have been associated with 13 different types of cancer, but a new study published in Nature Communications shows that the number of cancers connected to obesity has grown to 18. Previously, obesity was linked to breast, bowel, pancreatic, and kidney cancers, but according to the new study, being overweight is linked to a number of other common cancers too. "This study shows that longer duration, greater degree, and younger age of onset of overweight and obesity during early adulthood are positively associated with risk of 18 cancers, including leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and among never-smokers, head and neck, and bladder cancers which are not yet considered as obesity-related cancers in the literature," the study’s authors wrote. "Our findings support public health strategies for cancer prevention focussing on preventing and reducing early overweight and obesity." The study examined more than 2.6 million Spanish adults who were 40 or younger and cancer free in 2009, The Independent reported. Those included in the study were observed for nine years and 225,396 of them were diagnosed with cancer. The study found that those who were obese in early adulthood appeared to have an increased risk of cancer, along with those who were obese for a longer period of time. Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-07 |
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