A low physical activity in youth is related to brain cancer

According to a study by the National Cancer Institute of the United States published in the journal Cancer Research. The glioma, a form of brain cancer fatal in most cases, would be intimately linked to physical activity that is conducted during adolescence.

Pursuant to the said study leader Steven C. Moore, investigations have resulted in THERE ARE biological factors associated with both growth during adolescence as the expenditure of energy and both have a paper in the development of glioma.

This index would be used to understand the biological characteristics of glioma and factors such as lifestyle may be modified to prevent the disease.

Very little is known about weighing gliomas are the most common type of brain cancer. However, with this investigation they have arisen you put in as evidence that both environmental exposures during childhood as a teenager have a major paper in the origin of this type of disease.

The physical activity, body mass index and height were used as parameters to determine if these factors early in life could he associated with the risk of suffering glioma.

Between the years 1995 and 1996 almost 500,000 men and women participating in a study of diet and health, completed a questionnaire on lifestyle and type of food, subsequently, has monitored the participants for 8 years and the result is that 480 of them suffered from glioma.

The conclusion by which the past has consisted of what those assets are physically held in his teens had less risk of suffering from glioma, about 36%, compared to those who were inactive in the same stage of life and who were obese at adolescence they were at greater risk of suffering this disease.

On the other hand, one could conclude that most adults have twice the risk of suffering this type of cancer, physical activity or obesity among adults may be associated with the disease.

Investigators believe that these studies should be expanded to confirm the association of glioma with obesity, since in this investigation the number of obese participants were very low.