Obesity Increases Prevalence of Colonic Adenomas at Screening Colonoscopy: A Canadian Community-Based Study

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Obesity is a risk factor for colorectal neoplasia. We examined the influence of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) on prevalence of neoplasia at screening colonoscopy. METHODS: We evaluated 2020 subjects undergoing first screening colonoscopy. Body mass index (BMI) was calcul...

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Publicado no:Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol
Main Authors: Shapero, Theodore F., Chen, Grant I., Devlin, Tim, Gibbs, Alison, Murray, Iain C., Tran, Stanley, Weigensberg, Corey
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Hindawi 2017
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525097/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781966
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8750967
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