Hundreds of lives are being lost to prostate cancer because of high levels of obesity among men, a new study suggests
While the mechanisms behind the findings are still unknown, researchers said the study still suggests men should try to maintain a healthy weight.
"Age, family history and black ethnicity are known risk factors but they are not modifiable, and so it is important to discover risk factors that it is possible to change."Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerAnd the researchers said that men aged 55 to 64 have an average BMI score of 28.9 - which classes them as overweight.
Commenting on the study, Simon Grieveson, from Prostate Cancer UK, said that while the results were"compelling" more research was needed to fully understand the biological relationship between obesity and prostate cancer.The study is being presented at the European Congress on Obesity in the Netherlands and published in the journal BMC Medicine.A separate study published at the same conference also found poor sleep may undermine a person's attempts to keep weight off.
People who slept for less than six hours per night were found to have, on average, increased their BMI score by 1.3 points after a year compared with those who slept for more than six hours.
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