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THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) — From 2000 to 2016, there was a shift of the obesity-associated cancer (OAC) burden to younger age groups, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in JAMA Network Open<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Siran M. Koroukian, Ph.D., from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, and colleagues examined trends in time for age distribution of OACs and non-OACs. Differences by ethnicity and sex were examined using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (2,665,574 incident OACs [70.3 percent women] and 3,448,126 incident non-OACs [32.0 percent women] from 2000 to 2016).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that the percentage of incident cases increased in the 50- to 64-year-old age group for both arms, ranging from a 25.3 percent increase in the number of OACs in this age group for non-Hispanic white women to a 197.8 percent increase in Hispanic men. In the 20- to 49-year-old age group, the change in the number of OACs ranged from a 5.9 percent drop in non-Hispanic white women to a 94.6 percent increase among Hispanic women. For those \u226565 years, the increases ranged from 2.5 percent in non-Hispanic white women to 102.0 percent in Hispanic women. There was a greater annual increase in the odds for OACs for individuals in the 50- to 64-year-old age group but a decrease for individuals in the group aged 65 years or older compared with non-OACs. Compared with non-OACs, the annual increase in OACs was 0.5 percent higher in non-Hispanic black men and 1.3 percent higher in non-Hispanic white men.<\/p>\n
“The findings have important public health implications and suggest that interventions to reduce obesity and to implement individualized screening programs are needed,” the authors write.<\/p>\n