Researchers Consider Link Between Adolescent Obesity and Colorectal Cancer
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AlexRaths/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Adolescents who are obese may face an increased risk of colorectal cancer later on in life, researchers say.
According to a study presented at the American Association of Cancer Research Conference, researchers looked at data from 240,000 Swedish men and found that those who were obese as teenagers were 2.37 times as likely to develop colorectal cancer compared to those who they deemed “normal weight.”
The link between obesity and colorectal cancer has been seen in previous research, but the study is the first to find that risk begins at an earlier age.
Of note, the study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and their restrictions for the categorization of “obese” are not clear.
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