A Prospective Investigation of Body Size, Body Fat Composition and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the UK Biobank.

Sci Rep · 2017 · PMC5736687 · PMID 29259258

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Among women, waist circumference was positively related to colorectal cancer risk, although this relationship did not quite reach statistical significance (Table 3 ).

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The positive relationship between BMI and colorectal cancer risk was most apparent for colon cancer versus rectal cancer (P heterogeneity = 0.17), and for proximal colon versus distal colon cancer (P heterogeneity = 0.14), but these differences did not reach statistical significance (Table 2 ).

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