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Overweight adolescents ‘more likely to develop colorectal cancer’

25th July 2017

Being overweight or obese in adolescence may increase a person's chance of developing colorectal cancer in adulthood.

This is according to a new study from Israel's Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, which analysed information on 1.09 million male and 707,212 female subjects, who underwent health examinations between the ages of 16 and 19 from 1967 to 2002, before being tracked until 2012.

Over a median follow-up of 23 years, it was shown that being overweight or obese was associated with 53 percent and 54 percent higher risks of colon cancer for men and women, respectively.

Additionally, obesity was linked to a 71 percent increased risk of rectal cancer in men and more than a twofold increased risk in women.

Dr Zohar Levi of Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University said: "This is the largest study ever including both men and women, and it had the power to prove the importance of body mass index at age 17 on events later in life."

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