Association between Metabolically Healthy Status and Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Although obesity is associated with numerous diseases, the risks of disease may depend on metabolically healthy status. Nevertheless, it is unclear to whether metabolically healthy status affects risk of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer in general Chinese population.

Materials and methods

A total of 114,995 participants who met the criteria were included from the Kailuan Study. The study participants were divided into four groups according to body mass index (BMI)/waist circumference (WC) and metabolic status. Incident of GI cancer (esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, biliary cancer, pancreatic cancer, and colorectal cancer) during 2006-2020 were confirmed by review of medical records. The Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to assess the ass

SUBMITTER: Cui H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10789963 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature