Explaining the Obesity Paradox: The Association between Body Composition and Colorectal Cancer Survival (C-SCANS Study)
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...Body mass index, mean (SD) 28 (6) 28 (6) 28 (7)...
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...LowMM in cancer also occurs at any disease stage.(14,15) Many believe that nutrition is not a priority once cancer is diagnosed or even that it can increase tumour growth,(16) which is not founded on scientific evidence....
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...at the time of cancer diagnosis and continue to lose muscle throughout the disease trajectory, even in the context of curative disease.(4,9,12,14) Therefore, a nutrition interven-...
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...overweight or obesity leading to favourable outcomes) in cancer may be due to the lack of body composition data and the use of body mass index, which confounds the association of low MM with shorter survival.(14,42) As such, interventions leading to disproportional gains in adipose tissue versus MM might have limited impact on clinical out-...
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...Total grains that are whole, median (IQR), % 30 (14-50) 46 (22-65) 50 (31-65) 56 (37-69) 62 (51-78) <....
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...BMI, median (IQR) 33 (30-36) 29 (26-32) 26 (23-29) 25 (23-28) 23 (22-25) <....
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...of unique fruits and vegetables consumed per month, median (IQR) 27 (22-30) 27 (24-31) 29 (24-33) 30 (26-32) 31 (27-34) <....
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...Physical activity, median (IQR), MET-h/wk 2 (1-5) 6 (2-10) 9 (3-18) 22 (12-37) 31 (21-46) <....
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...Furthermore, in the C-SCANS cohort, we note that overweight versus normal-weight patients have a lower mortality risk regardless of stage, including a protective association in stage I patients who we would not expect to die from their cancer (33)....
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...This approach is common for defining low muscle mass in cancer (28, 29)....
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...Single-slice abdominal cross-sectional areas at the L3 vertebra are strongly correlated withwhole body volumes ofmusclemass andadipose tissue (26)....
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