Childhood body mass index and risk of adult pancreatic cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excess weight in adulthood is one of the few modifiable risk factors for pancreatic cancer, and height has associations as well. This leads to question whether body weight and height in childhood are associated with adult pancreatic cancer.

Objective

To examine if childhood body mass index (BMI; kg/m²) and height are associated with pancreatic cancer in adult life.

Methods

We linked 293,208 children born from 1930-1982 in the Copenhagen School Health Records Register who had measured values of weights and heights at ages 7-13 years with the Danish Cancer Registry to identify incident pancreatic cancer cases from 1968-2012. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using Cox proportional hazard regressions.

Results

SUBMITTER: Nogueira L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5788457 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature