For males, significant positive trends with increasing quartiles of WHR were observed for the incidence of all-cancer ( P trend = 0.01, Cox proportional hazard), prostate cancer ( P trend ≤ 0.01, Cox proportional hazard), and a marginally statistically significant positive trend was observed for colon cancer ( P trend = 0.06, Cox proportional hazard).
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Central body fatness is a stronger predictor of cancer risk than overall body size.
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