According to the largest study undertaken on a suspected relationship between prostate cancer and obesity, every 10 centimetres; which is four inches on the waist of a man’s raises his chance of dying from this type of cancer by 7%.
According to the World Health Organization, prostate cancer is the 2nd most often diagnosed cancer in males and the 4th most prevalent cancer worldwide although its link to obesity is still being investigated.
Researchers assessed all relevant studies published on the issue to far; which in this case encompassed a total of 2.5 million men and analyzed fresh data on more than 200,000 men in the United Kingdom to gain a clearer picture of the scale of the risk.
According to a research published in the journal known as BMC Medicine, the chance of dying from prostate cancer increased by 10% for every five-point rise in BMI.
According to Aurora Perez-Cornago;who is a nutritional epidemiologist at Oxford University who conducted the study, if men reduced their BMI by five points, there would be 1,300 fewer cancer deaths per year in the UK alone.
She said that the most important message is for males to keep a healthy weight.
According to Perez-Cornago, prostate cancer is commonly identified later in overweight men for a variety of reasons the fact that they may be less health conscious.
She explained that an example is that if men begin to go to the bathroom more frequently at night, a common indicator of prostate cancer is that they may be less inclined to see a doctor.
Even if they tested, the chemical that indicates cancer is less likely to be detected since overweight men have more blood thus diluting the sample.
The work was presented at the European Congress on Obesity in the Netherlands; which was financed by Cancer Research UK.
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