Prediabetes and the risk of cancer: a meta-analysis

• Published in: Diabetologia Vol. 57; no. 11; pp. 2261 - 2269
• Main Authors: Huang, Yi, Cai, Xiaoyan, Qiu, Miaozhen, Chen, Peisong, Tang, Hongfeng, Hu, Yunzhao, Huang, Yuli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Cohort analysis; Colorectal cancer; Diabetes; Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance; Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases); Endocrinopathies; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance; Fasting; Female; Glucose; Human Physiology; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Meta-Analysis; Metabolic Diseases; Multiple tumors. Solid tumors. Tumors in childhood (general aspects); Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - etiology; Oncology; Prediabetic State - complications; Prediabetic State - epidemiology; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Tumors; China; Impaired fasting glucose; Prediabetes; Impaired glucose tolerance; Risk factors; Cancer; Endocrinopathy; Fasting; Diabetes mellitus; Risk factor; Glucose; Malignant tumor

Aims/hypothesis The results from prospective cohort studies of prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) and risk of cancer are controversial. We conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the risk of cancer in association with impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose...