Men with high cholesterol levels are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer. Italian researchers said that the link was strongest in men with more than average cholesterol levels in their blood at earlier ages. It was somewhat stronger for men whose high cholesterol levels had been diagnosed before they were 50 and for men over 65, where there was an 80 per cent greater likelihood of high cholesterol levels.
It finds also that prostate cancer patients were 26 per cent more likely to have suffered from gallstones with an apparently higher relationship in thinner men.