ArticleAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP2018
Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancer: a Case-Control Study
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- Crossroad between Obesity and Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Review of Molecular Mechanisms and Interventions.International journal of preventive medicine · 2021Review
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Background: The metabolic syndrome and its concomitant complications are a major public health challenge worldwide. Growing evidence implies associations with cancer development and progression. Since there has been no report on this subject in South Khorasan, we studied metabolic syndrome components in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients for comparison with a control group in this province. Materials and methods: This case-control study was performed on 68 patients with histopathologically proven gastrointestinal cancers, referred to the oncology center in Birjand city (capital of South Khorasan province, Iran) in 2016-2017, and 100 control subjects without disease. Patients and control subjects completed a researcher-made questionnaire covering demographic characteristics, physical activities and food intake. Also, blood samples were obtained from both patients and control subjects after overnight fast. Anthropometric measurements of height, weight, body mass index, waist circumference and blood pressure were additionally performed. Results: Significant differences in the levels of blood glucose and serum HDL were noted between the two groups (P≤0.001). Also, the percentage of pre-diabetic and diabetic patients in the case group was higher than the control group (17.6 and 16.2% vs. 10.3 and 2.9%) (P=0.009). Multiple logistic regression showed that the risk of gastrointestinal cancer in people with high blood glucose was 3.35 times that in those with normal blood glucose (OR3.35, 95%CI,1.41-7.94; P=0.006) , 2.37 times higher in subjects with lower HDL (OR 2.37, 95%CI,1.18- 4.78), 10.4 times higher in overweight people (OR10.4, 95%CI,2.23-48.5) and 4.3 times higher in individuals with an opium addiction(OR4.3, 95%CI, 1.6-11.5) than those without. The mean consumption of fish (P=0.03) and vegetables and fruits (P=0.027) in the case group was significantly lower than in the control group. Conclusion: Emerging evidence indicates that the metabolic syndrome or its individual components may be important in the etiology and progression of GI cancer. Research to work toward preventing cancers should thus focus on nutritional and lifestyle modifications which may alleviate the metabolic syndrome.
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