Abstract:Objective To analyze and evaluate the association between obesity and colorectal adenomas. Methods A systematic search for related studies from CNKI, WanFang Data, SinoMed, CqVip, PubMed, EMBase and Cochrane Library was performed following the searching strategies. The quality of the included studies was assessed using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS), and a meta-analysis was conducted using Stata 12.0 software. Results Twenty-eight studies were included. The combined ■ was 1.38 (95%CI: 1.30-1.47, P = 0.000), which indicated that obese people was 38% higher in the prevalence of colorectal adenomas. I2 = 43% (P = 0.009) showed that this meta-analysis had a moderate degree of heterogeneity. Dose-response relationship analysis also showed that high BMI could increase the prevalence of colorectal adenoma. No significant diffe-
rences were found during the sensitivity analysis, which meant that this analysis performed a good stability. Subgroup analysis showed that neither gender nor race had significant influence on the occurrence of colorectal adenomas. Significant publication bias was not observed according to Egger's and Begg's results. Conclusions Obesity increases the prevalence of colorectal adenomas, which suggests that obesity should be considered as a risk factor in colorectal adenoma screening.