ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2017
Body mass index and risk of colorectal carcinoma subtypes classified by tumor differentiation status.
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- Overweight and obesity significantly increase colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 66 studies revealing a 25-57% elevation in risk.GeroScience · 2025Pooled it
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- Is the association of overweight and obesity with colorectal cancer underestimated? An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.European journal of epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
- Obesity and colorectal cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of clinical oncology · 2026Article
- Colorectal cancer spatial pattern in the northeast region of São Paulo, Brazil.Global epidemiology · 2023Article
- The underestimated impact of excess body weight on colorectal cancer risk: Evidence from the UK Biobank cohort.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Diabetes mellitus in relation to colorectal tumor molecular subtypes: A pooled analysis of more than 9000 cases.International journal of cancer · 2022Article
- Multifactorial causation of early onset colorectal cancer.Journal of Cancer · 2021Article
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- Obesity, diabetes and the risk of colorectal adenoma and cancer.BMC endocrine disorders · 2019Article
- Obesity and the Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2019Review
- Association of Obesity With Risk of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Among Women.JAMA oncology · 2019Article
- Gut microbiome meta-analysis reveals dysbiosis is independent of body mass index in predicting risk of obesity-associated CRC.BMJ open gastroenterology · 2019Article
- Energy balance and gastrointestinal cancer: risk, interventions, outcomes and mechanisms.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2018Review
- Waist circumference and risk of 23 site-specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of Korean adults.British journal of cancer · 2018Article
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Abstract
Previous studies suggest that abnormal energy balance status may dysregulate intestinal epithelial homeostasis and promote colorectal carcinogenesis, yet little is known about how host energy balance and obesity influence enterocyte differentiation during carcinogenesis. We hypothesized that the association between high body mass index (BMI) and colorectal carcinoma incidence might differ according to tumor histopathologic differentiation status. Using databases of the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and duplication-method Cox proportional hazards models, we prospectively examined an association between BMI and the incidence of colorectal carcinoma subtypes classified by differentiation features. 120,813 participants were followed for 26 or 32 years and 1528 rectal and colon cancer cases with available tumor pathological data were documented. The association between BMI and colorectal cancer risk significantly differed depending on the presence or absence of poorly-differentiated foci (P
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