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Is anyone aware of any correlation between high blood pressure and prostate cancer?

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although some thin men get prostate cancer and some thin men get hypertension, there is a correlation between obesity and prostate cancer as one of the factors, and certainly there is also a correlation between obesity and hypertension. So that's the simplest explanation of the correlation.

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