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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Body Mass Index


NSAIDs may lower breast cancer recurrence rate in overweight, obese women

Posted: 14 Aug 2014 11:53 AM PDT

Recurrence of hormone-related breast cancer was cut by half in overweight and obese women who regularly used aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, according to a study. The study found that women whose body mass index (BMI) was greater than 30 and had estrogen receptor alpha (ERĪ±)-positive breast cancer had a 52 percent lower rate of recurrence and a 28-month delay in time to ...

Overweight and obesity linked to 10 common cancers, over 12,000 cases every year in UK

Posted: 14 Aug 2014 11:49 AM PDT

A higher body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, the largest study of its kind on BMI and cancer, involving more than 5 million adults in the UK, shows. Each 5 kg/m² increase in BMI was clearly linked with higher risk of cancers of the uterus (62% increase), gallbladder (31%), kidney (25%), cervix (10%), thyroid (9%), and leukemia (9%). Higher BMI ...

Body Mass Index 'positively associated' with cancer risk

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 10:22 PM PDT

Overweight or obese people are at greater risk of developing cancer, according to a major new study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Obesity raises cancer risk: study

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 08:55 PM PDT

BRITISH researchers who gathered data on 5.2 million people found that a person's Body Mass Index and obesity were linked to 17 out of 22 cancers.

Quake kills four in Quito, Ecuador

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 08:44 PM PDT

A 5.1-MAGNITUDE earthquake in Ecuador's capital region has killed four people, while a further three remain missing.

A million children at risk because of hidden fat

Posted: 27 Jul 2014 08:09 AM PDT

Around a million children are at risk of heart disease and diabetes because standard measures to determine if they are healthy ignore body fat and muscle mass

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