ArticleWorld journal of clinical oncology2026
Obesity and colorectal cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Article in World journal of clinical oncology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Urgent Need to Address Modifiable Risk Factors to Prevent Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer in Mexico.Cureus · 2026Review
- Genetic Insights into Interleukin-13 Polymorphisms in Colorectal Cancer Risk and Progression.Cancer genomics & proteomicsArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAn observed correlation between increased colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence in patients with obesity [body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m
aimTo determine if an updated correlation exists between obesity and the risk of CRC development.
methodsWe evaluated recent data, synthesising pooled estimate effects to determine if an updated correlation exists between obesity and CRC. Observational studies were identified from a range of databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus and the Cochrane database). From the studies identified, sex-stratified meta-analyses were conducted. Additionally, studies included in this review that were unfit for meta-analysis underwent qualitative analysis.
resultsIn a pooled sample size of 83506 male participants obtained from six observational studies, a significant positive correlation between obesity and CRC incidence was identified with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.71 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.44-2.02]. A pooled sample size of 152043 female participants from six observational studies also revealed a positive correlation with an HR effect of 1.26 (95%CI: 1.03-1.53). Qualitative analysis of studies not included in the meta-analysis consistently supported this relationship for both sexes.
conclusionObesity, diagnosed by a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.