Our study “Comparing waist circumference with body mass index on obesity-related cancer risk” was highlighted by a press release by Lund University and in SVT Skåne (45 sek into the clip) (both in Swedish).
New publication: Comparing waist circumference with body mass index on obesity-related cancer risk
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Our study, Comparing waist circumference with body mass index on obesity-related cancer risk: a pooled Swedish study was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study suggests that waist circumference is a stronger risk factor than body mass index for obesity-related cancer in men, whereas this is less evident in women.
PhD Defense of Ming Sun: Pinpointing the association between obesity and cancer risk
On December 13, 2024, at 13:00, PhD candidate Ming Sun successfully defended her thesis titled Pinpointing the Association between Obesity and Cancer Risk at the Agardh Lecture Hall, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. The opponent was Gillian Reeves from Oxford University, and the committee members included Fang Fang from the Karolinska Institute, Sofia Zackrison, and Christel Nielsen from Lund University, with Sofia serving as the head of the defense. The main supervisor was Tanja Stocks, with Josef Fritz and Christel Häggström as co-supervisors.
Thank you to everyone involved and to the audience at the public defense. We wish Ming Sun the best in her future research career!
ODDS study featured in SVEPET: The Swedish Epidemiology Association’s members’ journal
The study on weight trajectories and prostate cancer, with ODDS postdoc Marisa da Silva as the first author, was presented in the Swedish Epidemiology Association’s members’ journal SVEPET. This edition, themed around the NordicEpi 2024 conference in Copenhagen, highlighted several studies and included personal reflections from the event SVEPET NordicEpi 2024.
Marisa da Silva, happy after waiting 45 minutes for a delicious bowl of ramen in Copenhagen.
The Swedish Cancer Society unveils findings from the ODDS Study
The Swedish Cancer Society has published a comprehensive article on their website (in Swedish) highlighting the findings from the ODDS study, recently featured in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. The study suggests that obesity may be associated with a greater number of cancer types than previously recognised, including several rare forms. Ny studie: fetma potentiellt kopplat till fler cancerformer än tidigare känt | Cancerfonden
New publication: Time trends of the association of body mass index with mortality in 3.5 million young Swedish adults
Our first original study Time trends of the association of body mass index with mortality in 3.5 million young Swedish adults of the ODDS study was published in Annals of Epidemiology on July 15. The study highlights the importance of considering age and death cause compositions when examining BMI-mortality trends to prevent the misinterpretation of obesity risks.
New publication: Body mass index and risk of over 100 cancer forms and subtypes in 4.1 million individuals in Sweden
We are excited to announce the publication of our study Body mass index and risk of over 100 cancer forms and subtypes in 4.1 million individuals in Sweden: the Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) pooled cohort study in the The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. The study suggests that several additional, often rare, cancer forms may be potentially related to obesity.
New publication: The ODDS cohort profile
Today the cohort profile was published in BMJ Open – Cohort profile: The Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) study, a pooled cohort | BMJ Open. It has been a joint effort by the ODDS working team and cohort representatives and we are very pleased for the cohort profile to be published after years of hard work!
NordicEpi 2024
11th Nordic Conference of Epidemiology and Register-Based Health Research, 12-14 June 2024, Copenhagen
The ODDS working team members attended the NordicEpi 2024 conference in Copenhagen. We met with colleagues in the field of epidemiology to exchange results and ideas and left with inspiration for future research topics and collaborations.
Postdoc Innocent Mboya, presented the ODDS study “Time Trends of the Association of Body Mass Index with Mortality in 3.5 Million Young Swedish Adults” in the parallell session Confounding and causal models, Thursday June 13th.
Postdoc Marisa da Silva, presented the ODDS study “Weight trajectories through adulthood and prostate cancer” in the parallell session Life course epidemiology, Thursday June 13th.
… and we listened to the prominent keynote speaker Prof Kenneth Rothman on how to identify epidemiological mistakes.
European Congress of Obesity 2024
The PI of ODDS, Tanja Stocks, presented the study “Body mass index and risk of over 100 cancer forms and subtypes in 4.1 million individuals in Sweden” at this year´s European Congress of Obesity (ECO), 12-15 May in Venice, Italy. Just as last year at ECO, the ODDS study got a lot of attention in the media in connection to the congress. The present study by Ming Sun et al. that is yet to be peer-reviewed was highlighted in several international newspapers Day one media coverage ECO 2024
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