First study to show obesity-related cancer risk is 1.5-fold higher in people with metabolic aberrations as well as obesity, compared with metabolically healthy and normal weight individuals.
For up to 40 years, nearly 800,000 people from Sweden, Norway and Austria have been tracked based on how their BMI and metabolic health - that is, their blood pressure, blood glucose levels and blood fats - affect the risk of suffering from obesity-related cancers.
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Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden.