发病率和死亡率在北美和欧洲,肥胖症正以令人担忧的速度增加,其发病率和死亡率大幅度上升。长期以来,人们已认识到肥胖是糖尿病和心血管疾病的危险因素,但并不认为它会导致癌症。近期美国癌症协会的一项公众调查发现,只有不到5%的调查对象知道,癌症发病风险增加也与超重及肥胖相关。最近的一项荟萃分析显示,欧盟每年新发的350万名肿瘤患者中,有超过7万名患者是由于超重或肥胖所致。这一 Morbidity and mortality In North America and Europe, obesity is at an alarming rate and its morbidity and mortality have risen dramatically. It has long been recognized that obesity is a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease but does not consider it to cause cancer. A recent public survey by the American Cancer Society found that less than 5% of respondents knew that the increased risk of developing cancer was also linked to overweight and obesity. A recent meta-analysis showed that over 70,000 new cases of over 3.5 million new cancer patients in the EU each year are due to overweight or obesity. This one