Publications by authors named "Nadin Hawwash"
Background: Elevated body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m is a major preventable cause of cancer. A single BMI measure does not capture the degree and duration of exposure to excess BMI. We investigate associations between adulthood overweight-years, incorporating exposure time to BMI ≥25 kg/m and cancer incidence, and compare this with single BMI.
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- A study investigated the relationship between waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) with the incidence of cancer, focusing on cumulative waist circumference (waist circumference-years) over time instead of just single measurements.
- The research utilized serial WC measurements from a 9-year longitudinal study involving over 10,000 participants and analyzed cancer risk using Cox proportional hazards regression.
- Results indicated that waist circumference-years are positively associated with obesity-related cancers, but did not offer significant predictive value beyond traditional WC and BMI measurements, suggesting that BMI might be more practical for routine clinical assessment.
Background: Medicine is one of the most inaccessible professions in the United Kingdom (UK). The Plant a Seed (PAS) series was created to address this; it is an online pre-recorded three-part video series to "Inspire", "Educate" and "Motivate" pupils from widening participation backgrounds on Medicine. We explored the impact of PAS on pupils' knowledge, skills and attitude to Medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExcess body mass index (BMI) is associated with a higher risk of at least 13 cancers, but it is usually measured at a single time point. We tested whether the overweight-years metric, which incorporates exposure time to BMI ≥25 kg/m , is associated with cancer risk and compared this with a single BMI measure. We used adulthood BMI readings in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study to derive the overweight-years metric.
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