A Canadian research has revealed that numerous obese people lack lean muscle mass which can put them at higher risk in battling diseases like cancer. The study which carried out at the University of Alberta in Edmonton got that body compositions of any cancer patients determined their survival rates and their activity levels during the illness and even the reaction to chemotherapy treatment.

According to a university release stated – as part of the research, the study group which led by oncology professor Vickie Baracos, got computed tomography images of 250 obese cancer patients. Their findings discovered that patients with a condition called sarcopenic obesity (a depletion of lean muscle mass, paired with being severely overweight) lived about 10 months less than the counterparts who were obese, but had more lean muscle mass. Moreover, the study got that obese sufferers with lean muscle mass as well tended to much bedridden and in worst physical shape than patients with no sarcopenic obesity. Vickie Baracos says, ” In many cases, people with sarcopenic obesity have as little or sometimes less muscle mass than thin people who look as of they were made of skin and bones.”

The result of the research showed that future prognosis for cancer patients will have got to get the body composition into consideration. Baracos said, factors like lean muscle mass can play a part in how those patients reacted to chemotherapy, and drug dosing could potentially be improved. She said, ”It remains to be proven whether tailored doses of chemotherapy would improve treatment, but that’s possible based on what we’ve seen in this study.” She added, ”With obesity reaching new levels, new concepts relating to body weight must be explored. People’s body compositions were less variable in the past and the condition of sarcopenic obesity is a recently recognized phenomenon.”