Diabetes may be linked to risk of lymphoma

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More cases of blood cancers classified as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or NHL, seem to occur among people with diabetes than those without, researchers report.

"Although the relative risk is moderate, given the rapidly increasing incidence and prevalence of diabetes, the number of incident cases of NHL attributed to diabetes can potentially be very high," Dr. Anastassios G. Pittas and colleagues point out in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care.

Pittas, at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and his team found 16 previous studies reporting an association between diabetes and NHL. Combined data from all the studies showed that the likelihood of developing NHL was 19 percent higher for subjects with diabetes than for comparison groups without diabetes.

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Debe Pendice	December 17, 2008 8:49 AM The more and more I pick up a newspaper or a magazine I can't get through one without seeing an article about diabetes. Now a days diabetes seems to be linked to everything going on in the world. This goes to show diabetes they need to take extra care of themselves and therir health.............Debe