TY - JOUR AU - Recalde, Martina AU - Davila-Batista, Veronica AU - Díaz, Yesika AU - Leitzmann, Michael AU - Romieu, Isabelle AU - Freisling, Heinz AU - Duarte-Salles, Talita PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/14 TI - Body mass index and waist circumference in relation to the risk of 26 types of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 3.5 million adults in Spain JO - BMC Medicine SP - 10 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - A high body mass index (BMI) has been associated with increased risk of several cancers; however, whether BMI is related to a larger number of cancers than currently recognized is unclear. Moreover, whether waist circumference (WC) is more strongly associated with specific cancers than BMI is not well established. We aimed to investigate the associations between BMI and 26 cancers accounting for non-linearity and residual confounding by smoking status as well as to compare cancer risk estimates between BMI and WC. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01877-3 DO - 10.1186/s12916-020-01877-3 ID - Recalde2021 ER -