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Published on: September 27, 2024
Obesity and colorectal cancer
F Lagra1, K Karastergiou, I Delithanasis
11st Department of Internal Medicine, Kavala General Hospital, 61 Amerikan Erythrou Stavrou Str, 65201 Kavala, Greece.
Background:
To correlate obesity and colorectal cancer for Greek living conditions.
Patients And Methods:
We studied 97 patients, who over the last 5 years were diagnosed histopathologically with colorectal cancer. 75.3% of the patients were either overweight or centrally obese; secondly, 21.6% patients had diabetes, percentages higher than those in the population (statistically significant). Hyperinsulinaemia and resistance to insulin have been implicated in colorectal carcinogenesis.
Conclusions:
As our sample was small, no statistically significant evidence correlating diet and/or physical activity to colorectal cancer has emerged.
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