The risk of heart disease and diabetes could be improved, as evidenced by the risk factors of metabolic syndrome, and it also seems related to the incidence of liver cancer. Results from a large-scale study found that metabolic syndrome is associated with increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).
The researchers found that metabolic syndrome was significantly more common in people who developed it revealed the results of the exposure data in the event the annual scientific meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Data changes that happen to be HCC (37.1%) and ICC (29.7%) than in the comparison group (17.1%, P <.0001). Even after multiple logistic regression analysis, metabolic syndrome