Excess Body Weight and Cancer Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Who Were Registered in Swedish National Diabetes Register – Register-Based Cohort Study in Sweden

To assess the association between excess body weight and cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who were registered in the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR).This is a cohort study based on 25,268 patients with T2D and baseline BMI≥18.5 kg/m(2) from NDR 1997-1999. Subjects were grouped according to BMI into normal weight (18.5 to 24.9), overweight (25 to 29.9) or obesity (30 or more). All subjects were followed until the first...