Obesity prostate cancer protection?

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Hi All.

Obesity, it seems from the pdf-available below, to provide prostate cancer

protection.

Bradbury BD, Wilk JB, Kaye JA.

Obesity and the risk of prostate cancer (United States).

Cancer Causes Control. 2005 Aug;16(6):637-41.

PMID: 16049801

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstra\

ct & list_uids=16049801 & query_hl=32

.... Obese men (BMI >/= 30.0 ...) were at lower risk of developing prostate

cancer

(AOR=0.78, 95% CI: 0.56, 1.09) compared to normal weight men (BMI=23.0-24.9 ...

and

the data best fit an inverse quadratic model for the relation between BMI and

the

risk of prostate cancer. ...

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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