Obesity and Cancer Risk in White and Black Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Anthropometric measures of obesity, including BMI and waist circumference (WC), do not quantify excess adiposity and metabolic abnormalities consistently across racial populations. This study tested the hypothesis that participant race modifies the association of anthropometric measures of obesity and cancer risk.

Methods

This prospective cohort (The Pennington Center Longitudinal Study) included 18,296 adults, 6,405 (35.0%) male sex and 6,273 (34.3%) Black race. The primary exposures were BMI (weight in kilograms/height in meters squared) and WC (centimeters). The primary end point was the time from study enrollment to diagnosis of histologically confirmed invasive cancer.

Results

During a median follow-up of 14.0 years (interquartile range: 9.8-19.0 years)

SUBMITTER: Brown JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8422242 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature