Study: Obese Children Will Have 50% Higher Risk of Colon Cancer

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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-obese-children-will-have-50-higher-risk-of-colon-cancer/260218/



PROBLEM: Childhood obesity is associated with all sorts of immediate health problems, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, breathing and joint problems, along with an increased risk of developing diabetes and heart disease. This study set out to examine the relationship between childhood obesity and future diagnoses of urothelial, or bladder, and colorectal cancers.

METHODOLOGY: Researchers at Tel Aviv University appropriated the health information of 1.1 million males that had been collected by the Israeli Defense Forces and then linked this medical data to the National Cancer Registry. They looked specifically at the rates of urothelial and colorectal cancer over a follow-up period of 18 years in those who were obese, meaning that they had a body mass index (BMI) in the 85th percentile and above, at age 17. Adjustments were made for year of birth, level of education, and religiosity.

RESULTS: Those whose BMI placed them in the range of obesity in adolescence had a 1.42% greater chance of developing urothelial or colorectal cancers in adulthood.

CONCLUSION: Childhood obesity is associated with a 50% higher risk of urothelial or colorectal cancers.

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1. That poor kid in that pic.

I was an overweight kid and I'm still obese, but I was no where near as fat as that kid.