A new study revealed that weight gain or Obesity Increases the risk of cancer, as researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark found that the risk of infection by 12% is linked to a serious weight gain and obesity, and this includes types of breast, kidney, gallbladder, leukemia, brain and lymphoma.
The research team confirms that the high rates of obesity and obesity will increase the incidence of cancer, according to the study, which was published in the magazine ” Internal Medicine“The team looked at cancer data in Denmark for 40 years, from 1977 to 2016.
The researchers found 20,706 cancer cases among 313,321 adults who were clinically diagnosed as overweight or obese.By comparison, 18,480 cancers were diagnosed among the general Danish population during the same time period.
This means that weight gain above average increases the risk of developing all types of cancer by 12%, and the increased risk was the same for cancers that were identified as linked to obesity, such as kidney, pancreatic, and blood and nervous cancers..
Why is obesity linked to an increased risk of cancer?
Scientists have found that obesity is associated with a rapid rise in the number of cells as well as the secretion of high levels of pro-inflammatory proteins and hormones such as estrogen, all linked to cancer..
The results of the study recently contributed to obtaining recent data on the overall cancer burden among overweight and obese patients.
Obesity is known as a risk factor for many chronic health conditions except cancer, including type 2 diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks..
In 2012, a study from Cornell University in New York found that obesity accounts for about 21% of all healthcare costs in the United States, amounted to about $ 190.2 billion a year..
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