Association of Abdominal Visceral Adiposity and Total Fat Mass with Cancer Incidence and Mortality in White and Black Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Race modifies the association between anthropometric measures of obesity and cancer risk. However, the degree to which abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and total fat mass (FM) are associated with cancer risk is not known.

Methods

The sample included 3,017 White and 1,347 Black adults who were assessed between 1995 and 2016 and followed for outcome assessment through 2017. Abdominal VAT and FM were measured using imaging techniques. The co-primary endpoints were diagnosis of histologically confirmed invasive cancer (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) or death from cancer. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models quantified the HR of incident cancer and cancer mortality.

Results

There were 353 incident cancer cases and 75 cancer deaths in an avera

SUBMITTER: Katzmarzyk PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9357175 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature