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A recent study correlates a high BMI, along with an increased waist circumference and type 2 diabetes mellitus, with an increased risk of developing liver cancer.
The body mass index (BMI) of a person describes the function of a body in terms of height and mass. It is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and it’s universally expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.
As liver cancer has almost tripled in the U.S. since the 1970s, the prospects for current and future patients doesn’t look promising, according to Peter Campbell, strategic Digestive System Cancer Research at the American Cancer Society.
“We found that each of these three factors was associated, robustly, with liver cancer risk. All three relate to metabolic dysfunction. This adds substantial support to liver cancer being on the list of obesity-associated cancers,” explains Campbell.