Prospective Study of Hyperglycemia and Cancer Risk
Response to Stattin et al.
- Samantha L. Bowker, MSC12 and
- Jeffrey A. Johnson, PHD12
- 1School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 2Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Address correspondence to Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson, # 1200, 10405 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3N4 Canada. E-mail: jeff.johnson{at}ualberta.ca
The recent article by Stattin et al. (1) examined whether hyperglycemia was associated with an increased risk of cancer. Using the Västerbotten Intervention Project of northern Sweden, the authors calculated relative risks of incident cancer for levels of fasting and postload glucose. They observed an association between hyperglycemia and total cancer risk in women and men for several cancer sites, suggesting that their results provide further evidence for an association between …
