Diabetes, obesity, and cancer—pathophysiology and clinical implications

IC Lega, LL Lipscombe - Endocrine reviews, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Obesity and diabetes have both been associated with an increased risk of cancer. In the
face of increasing obesity and diabetes rates worldwide, this is a worrying trend for cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies on risk of cancer

G Markozannes, A Kanellopoulou, O Dimopoulou… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background We aimed to map and describe the current state of Mendelian randomization
(MR) literature on cancer risk and to identify associations supported by robust evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically proxied therapeutic inhibition of antihypertensive drug targets and risk of common cancers: A mendelian randomization analysis

J Yarmolinsky, V Díez-Obrero, TG Richardson… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Epidemiological studies have reported conflicting findings on the potential
adverse effects of long-term antihypertensive medication use on cancer risk. Naturally …

[HTML][HTML] Sex steroid hormones and risk of breast cancer: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

A Nounu, SP Kar, CL Relton, RC Richmond - Breast Cancer Research, 2022 - Springer
Background Breast cancer (BC) has the highest cancer incidence and mortality in women
worldwide. Observational epidemiological studies suggest a positive association between …

Association between genetically proxied inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase and epithelial ovarian cancer

J Yarmolinsky, CJ Bull, EE Vincent, J Robinson… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Preclinical and epidemiological studies indicate a potential chemopreventive
role of statins in epithelial ovarian cancer risk. Objective To evaluate the association of …

Circulating insulin-like growth factors and risks of overall, aggressive and early-onset prostate cancer: a collaborative analysis of 20 prospective studies and …

EL Watts, A Perez-Cornago, GK Fensom… - International journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Previous studies had limited power to assess the associations of circulating
insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) with clinically relevant …

Circulating free testosterone and risk of aggressive prostate cancer: Prospective and Mendelian randomisation analyses in international consortia

EL Watts, A Perez‐Cornago, GK Fensom… - … journal of cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies had limited power to assess the associations of testosterone with
aggressive disease as a primary endpoint. Further, the association of genetically predicted …

[HTML][HTML] A robust method for collider bias correction in conditional genome-wide association studies

O Mahmoud, F Dudbridge, G Davey Smith… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimated genetic associations with prognosis, or conditional on a phenotype (eg disease
incidence), may be affected by collider bias, whereby conditioning on the phenotype …

Mendelian randomization as a tool to gain insights into the mosaic causes of autoimmune diseases

C Chen, P Wang, RD Zhang, Y Fang, LQ Jiang… - Autoimmunity …, 2022 - Elsevier
Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are a broad range of disorders which are characterized by long-
term inflammation and tissue damage arising from an immune response against one's own …

[HTML][HTML] Atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, and cancer: common epidemiology, shared mechanisms, and future management

V Katsi, I Papakonstantinou, K Tsioufis - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The involvement of cardiovascular disease in cancer onset and development represents a
contemporary interest in basic science. It has been recognized, from the most recent …