Can your pants size predict your cancer risk?

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/6/09 | Michelle Rizzo

[NormsRevenge]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Your pants size might help gauge your risk of developing certain cancers, regardless of how much you actually weigh, Dutch researchers report.

A large waist and wide hips signal accumulation of so-called "intra-abdominal fat" -- the particularly harmful deep "hidden" fat that surrounds the abdominal organs and is linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

"It has been hypothesized that clothing size is related to physique, and it was recently reported that clothing size appears to be a strong surrogate for obesity and intra-abdominal fat," Dr. Laura A. E. Hughes, of Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and colleagues note in the journal Epidemiology.

Using information on nearly 2500 men and women enrolled in a large study of diet and cancer, the researchers validated ties between a person's clothing size and waist and hip size and their body mass index - a standard measure used to tell how fat or thin a person is.

Trouser and skirt size correlated well with waist and hip circumference measurements in men and women, the investigators report.

Hughes and colleagues next looked at whether clothing size could predict cancer risk.

With an average follow up period of roughly 13 years, they found that, in women, bigger skirt size predicted greater risk of endometrial cancer, while in men, bigger trouser size predicted greater risk of kidney cancer in men.

[goodnesswins]

My SIL is in BIG trouble....she’s as wide as she is tall!

[wastedyears]

If the adenoma in my neck breaks, and I don’t know about it, I’ll probably have a few months.

[Fester Chugabrew]

[LostInBayport]

[latina4dubya]

it took the writer of this article about ten paragraphs to say again and again what i learned in the title... it basically says nothing... what horrible reporting...

[Nervous Tick]

Dude. That causes eye cancer.

[The Great RJ]

Scary thought is that under Obamacare your waist size will be part of the government data base and now could be used to determine if you will get treated.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Watch Doctor Oz. His program is fantastic.

That belly fat is called Omentum.

[Nervous Tick]

>> That belly fat is called Omentum.

Once I hit fifty, my omentum got momentum.

[tx_eggman]

I've worked for 2 decades to develop a powerful set of muscles that enable me to sit for long periods of time without getting tired ... and now they tell me I may at risk

Just damn ...

[unkus]

Once I hit fifty, my omentum got momentum.
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Good one.

[fso301]

My husband who is 6-6 was a 34" when we married but is now a 40". We aren't getting any younger and recently decided to begin having regular medical checkups. His blood pressure was on the high side and so was his blood sugar.

Doctor said both will probably go away if we get him back to a 34" waist.

[SkyDancer]

I'm posting a smaller size since there isn't enough eye bleach to kill the image ....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sounds like a string bean kind of guy.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Where does that put Letterman’s ‘World WIDE Pants’? /s

[Nucluside]

Dude. THAT causes eye cancer, also!

[fso301]

Sounds like a string bean kind of guy

Not really a string bean. Wirey might be the better term. His undergraduate education was paid for as a DII basketball player. He also was on the track team throwing shot put, discus and javelin.

A very powerful man with the strength of a lineman, the speed of a receiver and the physique of a basketball player, he never quite found his sports niche.

[underbyte]

Do you measure above the roll or below it?

[ArmstedFragg]

It has been hypothesized that clothing size is related to physique

Where's that Captain Obvious picture?