Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-analysis of 31 Studies with 70,000 Events

By Ali G. Moghaddam, M. Woodward, R. Huxley. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2007

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Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies (2013, background): “The relationship between obesity and the risk of CRC has been assessed by a large number of studies and review papers [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28, 29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49, 50,51].”
The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2009, result): “For example, recent meta-analyses have been reported in diabetes [115,116], cardiovascular diseases [117], coronary heart disease [118], hypertension [116], cancer [119], colorectal cancer [120-122], gallbladder cancer [123], pancreatic cancer [124], ovarian cancer [125] and asthma [126].”
Obesity as a Major Risk Factor for Cancer (2013, background): “However, these data are possibly underestimated, since average weight has continued to rise in the worldwide population over the same time.”
Obesity and Diabetes: The Increased Risk of Cancer and Cancer-Related Mortality. (2015, background): “increase in waist circumference in a meta-analysis of studies (136).”