Table 2.

Disease-specific relative risks for overweight and obese persons by gender

	Overweight		Obese		Ref.
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Asthma	1.20	1.25	1.43	1.78	[14]
Breast cancer	1.00	1.08	1.00	1.13	[14]
Congestive heart failure	1.31	1.27	1.79	1.78	[14]
Colorectal cancer	1.51	1.45	1.95	1.66	[14]
Coronary artery disease	1.29	1.80	1.72	3.10	[14]
Diabetes type II	2.20	3.60	6.05	11.15	[14, 15]
Endometrial cancer	na	1.53	na	3.22	[14]
Gallbladder disease	1.09	1.44	1.43	2.32	[14]
Gout	2.02	1.79	3.70	2.95	[20]
Hypertension	1.28	1.65	1.84	2.42	[14]
Kidney cancer	1.40	1.82	1.82	2.64	[14]
Non-alcoholic fatty liver	1.30	1.52	4.09	4.78	[19]
Esophageal cancer	1.13	1.15	1.21	1.20	[14]
Osteoarthritis	2.76	1.80	4.20	1.96	[14]
Ovarian cancer	na	1.18	na	1.28	[14]
Pancreatic cancer	1.28	1.24	2.29	1.60	[14]
Prostate cancer	1.14	1.00	1.05	1.00	[14]
Pulmonary embolism	1.91	1.91	3.51	3.51	[14]
Stroke	1.23	1.15	1.51	1.49	[14]