Body mass index and risk of over 100 cancer forms and subtypes in 4.1 million individuals in Sweden : the Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) pooled cohort study
BACKGROUND: Obesity, assessed by body mass index (BMI), is an established risk factor for 13 cancers. We aimed to identify further potential obesity-related cancers and to quantify their association with BMI relative to that of established obesity-related cancers.METHODS: Using Cox regression models on 4,142,349 individuals in Sweden (mean age 27.1 years at weight measurement), we calculated hazar