Male teenagers that are overweight are more likely to die in later life from cancer says a Glasgow led study. Males with the highest body mass indexes (BMI) at age 18, researchers found were 35% more likely to die of cancer than those whose weight was healthier at the time. The study looked at over 20,000 medical records of men and showed that the link continues even following weight loss during middle age.
Obesity in early adulthood has been studied in a similar way before as to its impact on cancer later in life. Dr, Linsay Gray was lead author of the study and said that it is the first time that obesity in early adulthood and on later risk cancer was part of such an intense study.
What is interesting is the higher BMI at 18 is of greater risk for cancer than higher BMI in middle age. There is a clear message in all this – keep your weight as healthy as a young adult and you can reduce your chances of developing cancer.
Associations between weight and cancer were strong for skin, lung, uro-genital (bladder, kidney, testicular, prostate) and oesophageal cancers. Men whose BMI was greater than average at 18 had more than a 50% higher risk of dying from lung cancer than people with the lowest BMIs regardless if they smoked or not.
There was not information available to the researchers for women but they feel there would not be much of a difference between the two. There have been other studies that point toward an increased chance of breast cancer because of obesity. Figures show that 33% of Scottish children ages 13-15 are overweight and 10% are obese.
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