Obesity increases the risk of endometrial cancer

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Obesity increases the risk of endometrial cancer. The incidence of emdometrial cancer is most common in developed countries and varies 25-fold around the world.

In other words, in some countries the incidence is 25 times greater than other countries.

“This suggests enormous possibilities of [endometrial] cancer prevention,” the authors of the paper noted.

A previous study (Lew, 1979) found that the risk of dying from endometrial cancer were

• 11 percent less in women who were at least 20 percent under their ideal weight
• 4 percent greater in women who were at least 10-20 percent underweight
• 0 percent greater in women who were within 10 percent of their ideal weight
• 36 percent greater in women who were within 10-19 percent over of their ideal weight
• 85 percent greater in women who were within 20-29 percent over of their ideal weight
• 130 percent greater in women who were within 30-39 percent over of their ideal weight
• 442 percent greater in women who were at least 40 percent over of their ideal weight

REFERENCE

Muenstedt K, Grant P, Woenckhaus J, Roth G, Tinneberg H. Cancer of the endometrium: current aspects of diagnostics and treatment. World J Surg Oncol. 2004 Jul 21, 2(1):24.

Lew E. Mortality experience among anesthesiologists, 1954-1976. Anesthesiology. 1979 Sep, 51(3):195-99.

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