Open Access<p>Excess Body Weight and Incidence of Type 1 and Type 2 Endometrial Cancer: The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study</p>
Author(s) -
Tanja Lise Sollberger,
Oxana Gavrilyuk,
Charlotta Rylander
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s253866
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrial cancer , body mass index , hazard ratio , obesity , cancer , incidence (geometry) , risk factor , type 2 diabetes , cohort , cohort study , proportional hazards model , endocrinology , confidence interval , diabetes mellitus , physics , optics
Excess body weight has been associated with increased risk of 13 cancer types and is a particularly strong risk factor for endometrial cancer (EC). Only a few previous studies have assessed the relationship between excess body weight and EC subtypes. In this study, we aimed to investigate the associations between excess weight and incidence of type 1 and type 2 EC.