NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain features of the metabolic syndrome are associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer in African-American men, according to a report in the journal Cancer.
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that raise the risk of heart disease, including obesity, high blood sugar levels or overt diabetes, and high blood pressure, among others.
Dr. Jennifer L. Beebe-Dimmer and associates from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, used data from the Flint Men's Health Study to explore potential correlations between metabolic syndrome conditions and prostate cancer in African-American men.
Abdominal obesity, defined as having a waist greater than 40 inches, was 80 percent more common among African-American men with prostate cancer than among those without prostate cancer, the investigators report, and African-American men with high blood pressure or taking blood pressure medications were 2.4-times as likely to have prostate cancer as those who weren't.
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