Posting date: 2017-09-18

Apple-shaped women face a greater risk of cancer: Carrying excess fat on the stomach means they are more than 50 percent more likely to develop lung and bowel tumours

Study author Line Mærsk Staunstrup from Nordic Bioscience and ProScion in Denmark, said: 'In women, it is known that menopause initiates a shift of body fat toward higher level of abdominal adiposity, which may mediate obesity-related cancer risk. 'Avoiding central obesity may confer the best protection.'   The researchers analysed 5,855 postmenopausal women with a mean age of 71. The study was presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology congress in Madrid, but does not appear to be peer-reviewed.
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