Obesity may pose a serious health concern for children diagnosed with cancer, according to a recent population-based study conducted by researchers at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montreal. The findings, published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, indicate that among children with cancer, those who are obese at the time of diagnosis may face an elevated risk of dying.
The retrospective study relied on data from the Cancer in Young People in Canada (CYP-C) database, which includes all children with newly diagnosed cancer between the ages of 2 and 18 across Canada from 2001 to 2020. Among 11,291 children with cancer in the study, 10.5% were classified as obese, defined as age and sex-adjusted body mass index at or above the 95th percentile.
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