Guys - here is yet ANOTHER reason for losing the weight.

Doctors use common blood test to detect the presence of PSA or prostate-specific antigen.  However in obese men, who have a high BMI had a higher blood volume and subsequently lower PSA concentrations.

“Men with a body mass index, or BMI, indicating obesity had a higher blood volume and lower PSA concentrations. The most obese men had PSA concentrations 11 to 21 percent lower than those recorded in men of normal weight, the researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

These men could have a total amount of PSA in the blood that might signal prostate cancer, but because they had so much more blood, the PSA concentration was so diluted that the test results seemed to show no cause for alarm, they added.”

The researchers analyzed the reports of 14,000 men between 1988 and 2006 and drew those conclusions.

The article goes on to say:

“Dr. Carmen Rodriguez, an American Cancer Society epidemiologist who participated in the study, said the findings were particularly important considering the rising rates of obesity in the United States and worldwide.

Rodriguez said doctors had known obese men were at higher risk of developing more aggressive prostate cancer. She said this study indicates one of the reasons may be that some obese men could have had false negative results in PSA tests, with their cancer then detected much later after it had grown more advanced and more dangerous.”

Prostate Cancer DOES KILL

“Worldwide, prostate cancer is estimated to kill about 221,000 people annually, with 679,000 new cases diagnosed.

The American Cancer Society estimates that about 27,000 men will die from prostate cancer in the United States this year and about 219,000 men will be diagnosed with it.”

To read the full article, point your browser here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071120/hl_nm/cancer_prostate_dc;_ylt=AlDBFVNuCZ6vEzLrLU0mOTeISbYF

Guys — so this is another warning to work on losing the weight!

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Here is to your health,

Mohamed

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