Introduction: Cancer is one of the chronic and non-communicable diseases that include a wide range of diseases considering that, significant correlation was found in some studies between cancer and BMI higher than normal, and so far in this field few studies have been done in Khuzestan province and Ahwaz city. Also, planning to increase the health level of cancer patients in khuzestan province, it needs to know all the risk factors for the disease in this province. Therefore, this 5-year study on cancer patients referred to Shafa Hospital in Ahvaz, with the goal Determine the communication between body mass index and the risk of obesity-related cancer. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study, 1346 cases of patients with different types of cancer with BMI> 30, admitted to Shafa Hospital, Ahvaz city which for 5 years, with the diagnosis of any cancer and history of the disease with a BMI of over 30, And referring to the Ahvaz Shafa hospital, from 2012 to 2016, entered the study. The inclusion criteria included all patients with a medical diagnosis and history of any type of cancer with a BMI> 30, and in each age group and sex, and the exit criteria included other records of patients who had non-cancer medical diagnosis, cases with a BMI of less than 30, as well as incomplete cases. The data in this study included demographic, laboratory and clinical data of patients. Data were then entered into SPSS software version 20 and analyzed by descriptive statistics, analytical tests and significant level of P <0.05. Results: This study included 1346 individuals with different types of cancer with an average age of 64.08±88.52 years and 754 (56.0%) were female and the rest were male. Also, the mean BMI in these patients was 33.16 ± 5.08, that indicating patients with moderately obese (Obese Class I). In this study, the relationship between BMI and education was significant (p = 0.002). Also, 944 (70.1%) patients had malignant tumors and the rest were benign. The highest prevalence of cancer in this study was related to gastrointestinal cancers with 55.5%. In this study, also was calculated BMI for different types of cancer, that the highest incidence was related to gastrointestinal cancer (BMI = 35.57 ± 9.06). In this study, 456 (33.8%) patients had a history of diabetes. There was a significant relationship between the history of diabetes and gastrointestinal cancers (p = 0.008). Conclusion: In this study, the average body mass index of patients was moderately obese (obese class I). Also, the highest incidence of cancer in this study was related to gastrointestinal cancers, and there was a significant relationship between the history of diabetes and gastrointestinal cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to make changes in the lifestyle of people living in Khuzestan province. Also can prevented from developing obesity and diabetes which provides the ground for all types of cancer, especially gastrointestinal, with doing aerobic exercise, nutrition correction and not taking foods high in fat and high cholesterol.
کلید واژگان :Cancer, Body Mass Index, Obesity-Related Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Risk Factor
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