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CANCER PREVENTION RESEARCH
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 1873-1883Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0218
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- European Commission (DG-SANCO)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
- Danish Cancer Society (Denmark)
- Ligue Contre le Cancer
- Institut Gustave Roussy
- Mutuelle Generale de l'Education Nationale
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM
- France)
- Deutsche Krebshilfe
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research(Germany)
- Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece)
- Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC)
- National Research Council (Italy)
- Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS)
- Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR)
- LK Research Funds
- Dutch Prevention Funds
- Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland)
- World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)
- Statistics Netherlands (the Netherlands)
- Nordforsk
- Nordic Centre of Excellence (Norway)
- Health Research Fund (FIS)
- Regional Governments of AndalucUa
- Asturias
- Basque Country
- Murcia and Navarra
- ISCIII RETIC (Spain) [RD06/0020]
- Swedish Cancer Society
- Swedish Scientific Council
- Regional Government of Skane and Vasterbotten (Sweden)
- Cancer Research UK
- Medical Research Council
- Stroke Association
- British Heart Foundation
- Department of Health, Food Standards Agency
- Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom)
- [ERC-2009-AdG 232997]
- Medical Research Council [G0401527, G0801056B, MC_U106179471, G1000143] Funding Source: researchfish
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is purportedly related to risk of developing colorectal cancer; however, the association of MetS, as defined according to recent international criteria, and colorectal cancer has not been yet evaluated. In particular, it remains unclear to what extent the MetS components individually account for such an association. We addressed these issues in a nested case-control study that included 1,093 incident cases matched (1: 1) to controls by using incidence density sampling. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate relative risks (RR) and 95% CIs. MetS was defined according to the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program/Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP/ATPIII), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), and the 2009 harmonized definition. Among individual components, abdominal obesity (RR = 1.51; 95% CI: 1.16-1.96) was associated with colon cancer, whereas abnormal glucose metabolism was associated with both colon (RR = 2.05; 95% CI: 1.57-2.68) and rectal cancer (RR = 2.07; 95% CI: 1.45-2.96). MetS, as defined by each of the definitions, was similarly associated with colon cancer (e. g., RR = 1.91; 95% CI: 1.47-2.42 for MetS by NCEP/ATPIII), whereas MetS by NCEP/ATPIII, but not IDF or harmonized definition, was associated with rectal cancer (RR = 1.45; 95% CI: 1.02-2.06). Overall, these associations were stronger in women than in men. However, the association between MetS and colorectal cancer was accounted for by abdominal obesity and abnormal glucose metabolism such that MetS did not provide risk information beyond these components (likelihood ratio test P = 0.10 for MetS by NCEP/ATPIII). These data suggest that simple assessment of abnormal glucose metabolism and/or abdominal obesity to identify individuals at colorectal cancer risk may have higher clinical utility than applying more complex MetS definitions. Cancer Prev Res; 4(11); 1873-83. (C) 2011 AACR.
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