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Extreme obesity may shorten life expectancy up to 14 years
Author(s) -
Printz Carrie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.29128
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , life expectancy , body mass index , diabetes mellitus , epidemiology , demography , cancer , gerontology , cause of death , disease , environmental health , population , endocrinology , sociology
3591 T degree of a person’s addiction to nicotine, specifically if he or she smokes a cigarette within 5 minutes of waking up in the morning, is associated with a higher risk of developing lung cancer, according to the results of a new study.1 Researchers at the NCI analyzed data from approximately 1800 patients with lung cancer and 1400 individuals without cancer from 5 cities in the Lombardy region in Italy. They found that individuals who smoked their first cigarette within 5 minutes of waking had more than 3 times the risk of lung cancer when compared with those who waited longer than an hour before smoking their first cigarette, after taking into account age and sex as additional smoking characteristics. The investigators found that this degree of nicotine addiction further enhanced lung cancer risk prediction beyond the standard measures of cigarettes per day, age, sex, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.