{"id":2993,"date":"2006-12-23T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyhealth.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2020-07-06T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:23:45","slug":"obese-people-are-more-prone-to-aggressive-prostate-cancer-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/obese-people-are-more-prone-to-aggressive-prostate-cancer-study","title":{"rendered":"Obese people are more prone to aggressive prostate cancer: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the scholars of the American Cancer Society, <\/strong>aggressive prostate cancer may pounce upon the men who are likely to suffer from obesity<\/a><\/strong> than those who lose weight.<\/p>\n

Prostate cancer<\/a><\/strong> is the most common cancer (except for skin cancer<\/a><\/strong>) in U.S. men, becoming more common with age.<\/p>\n

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The study was based on 70,000 US men.<\/strong> The researchers (in 1992) collected data from men regarding their present weight and their weight 10 years earlier. Then they traced<\/strong> new prostate cancer cases among the men from 1992 to 2003.<\/p>\n

They concluded that those who accounted losing<\/strong> at least 11 pounds from 1982 to 1992 were about 40% less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer between 1992 and 2003 than those with little weight change in the 1982-1992 times.<\/p>\n

Most of the men who took part in the study were 55-74 years old<\/strong> in 1992 and none had any kind of cancer.<\/p>

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The researchers calculated their body mass index (BMI)<\/strong> – an indication of appropriate weight-by using the figures of their height and weight.<\/p>\n

Almost two-thirds of the men were overweight in 1992. 36% had normal BMI,<\/strong> 50% were overweight and 14% were obese.<\/p>\n

21% said they had lost more than 5 pounds, and 35% said they had gained 5 or more pounds between 1982 and 1992.
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By the mid of 2003, more than 5,000 men reported being diagnosed with prostate cancer but they weren’t aggressive.<\/p>\n

Men who had lost weight between 1982 and 1992 were less prone to have been identified with aggressive prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

Thus, they concluded that ‘men who lose weight may reduce their risk of prostate cancer.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Limitations of the study: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The investigation doesn’t take into consideration the childhood obesity. <\/strong>Therefore, the lifelong influence of obesity on prostate cancer risk isn’t clear from this study.<\/p>\n

The researchers didn’t assign anyone to lose weight,<\/strong> so this was an observational study rather than a direct test of weight loss for prostate cancer prevention.<\/p>\n

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