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Midlife weight gain is a risk factor for obesity-related cancer

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Cancer, June 2018
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Title
Midlife weight gain is a risk factor for obesity-related cancer
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British Journal of Cancer, June 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41416-018-0106-x
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Susan Chadid, Martha R. Singer, Bernard E. Kreger, M. Loring Bradlee, Lynn L. Moore

Abstract

Overweight and diabetes are known cancer risk factors. This study examines independent and combined effects of weight gain and metabolic dysfunction during middle-adult years on obesity-related cancer risk. Subjects (n = 3850) aged 45-69 years at exams 3-5 in the Framingham Offspring Study were classified according to current and prior (~14 years earlier) weight status, interim weight change and prevalent metabolic dysfunction. Cancer risk among subjects who were overweight at baseline and remained overweight, as well as those who became overweight during follow-up, was compared with risk among normal-weight individuals. Gaining ≥0.45 kg (≥1.0 pound)/year (vs. maintaining stable weight) over ~14 years increased cancer risk by 38% (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.09, 1.76); combined with metabolic dysfunction, weight gain increased cancer risk by 77% (95% CI, 1.21, 2.59). Compared with non-overweight adults, men and women who became overweight during midlife had 2.18-fold and 1.60-fold increased cancer risks; those who were overweight from baseline had non-statistically significant 28 and 33% increased cancer risks, respectively, despite having a midlife body mass index that was 3.4 kg/m2 higher than those who gained weight later. Midlife weight gain was a strong cancer risk factor. This excess risk was somewhat stronger among those with concurrent metabolic dysfunction.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 18%
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 20 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 9%
Psychology 4 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 24 53%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 June 2018.
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#3,114,223
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#1,997
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#64,629
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#35
of 90 outputs
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