AUG 15, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
From overweight/obesity to metabolic syndrome: increased postoperative survival risk in gastric cancer
BMC Cancer
A single-centre retrospective cohort study with propensity-score matching showing MetS combined with overweight/obesity associates with worse overall survival in gastric cancer, but the MetS-alone increment over overweight/obesity alone was not statistically significant and the study is underpowered for a definitive practice recommendation.
Reported
OS comparison: Group C vs Group AP = 0.033
OS comparison: Group B vs Group AP = 0.278
OS comparison: Group C vs Group BP = 0.163