Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition in which a person experiences an increase in blood pressure above normal or chronic (long periods).
According to the results of a recent study, people with hypertension included in the group with elevated risk of getting cancer.
These findings, according to research leader Dr Mieke Van Hemelrijck will be presented in the 2011 European Congress Multidiciplinary. This research involved 289,454 men and 288,345 women and the analysis results show that people with hypertension - particularly men - 10-20 percent higher risk of getting cancer.
Dr. Van Hemelrijck and his team from the Cancer Epidemiology Group at King's College London, England analyze related data regarding blood pressure, cancer incidence, and mortality risk in a prospective study that included seven groups of participants in Norway, Austria and Sweden.
Having observed for approximately 12 years, it is known that as many as 22,184 men and 14,744 women have been diagnosed with cancer. Even the 8724 men and 4525 women die from the disease. Overall, the risk of cancer increased by 29 percent in men.
The researchers also found, some of the complications of other diseases such as hypertension, oral cancer, colorectal, lung, bladder, kidney, melanoma and skin cancer increased in men.
Increased cancer risk is also seen in women with hypertension, although not very significant. Increasing cases in women with hypertension seen in cases of liver cancer, pancreas, cervix, endometrium and melanoma.
The researchers adjusted their results by taking into account age, gender, body mass index, smoking and errors due to inaccuracy in the measurement of blood pressure.
Van Hemelrijck said, as observational studies, this study could not demonstrate that hypertension is a major cause of the increased risk of cancer.
"We can not claim that there is a causal relationship between high blood pressure and cancer risk, nor can we say that the causes of cancer are factors associated with high blood pressure," he said.
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